Week 7 Assignment

The fisch bowl blog is about being technologically illiterate. Karl blogged about how times have changed drastically. We use to be able to get a job and be successful if we couldn't read or write back in the beginning of the 20 century. As the years have gone by it's nearly impossible to find a job without being able to read or write, let alone be considered successful. As times go on technology is becoming more and more important to understand because it is apart of our everyday lives. It's no longer acceptable to just shrug off computers because you just don't get it or understand them.

"If a teacher today is not technologically literate - and is unwilling to make the effort to learn more - it's equivalent to a teacher 30 years ago who didn't know how to read and write." -Karl Fisch

I think this quote by Karl Fisch is completely true! It's time for everyone young and old to realize computers are here and becoming more and more involved in our everyday lives! In classrooms attendance and grades are now posted to an online site. How can you expect to live up to your schools expectations if you can not operate a computer. I believe if you want to be a teacher you should also want to learn. It is our job to guide children and teach them new things. Computers are a way of life now and we need to be able to implicant that to our students. I believe Terry Freedman is correct in stating that all teachers should have some basic achievement in technological capabilities. My final thought on this matter is that I believe everyone and especially teachers should have the basic computer skills that they use in everyday life. There should not be anymore excuses because technology is NOW.