Blog #4

21st Century Teaching

Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy?

By Dian Schaffhauser

09/09/09

http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/09/09/21st-century-teaching.aspx

This article is about the teachers that are barely beginning their teaching careers and the lack of knowledge on how to include technology in their lessons. The school districts are complaining that the teachers are not knowledgeable in using technology and they are blaming the universities and colleges and the universities and colleges are saying that they do teach the teachers how to include the use of technology, but its the schools that don't have the right equipment or the new teachers see that the other teachers are not using technology, so they don't use it either. The article goes on to say that in order to be an effective teacher, you have to know the content well, you need to know the kinds of strategies that go together with the content, and you need to know what kind of technology equipment you can use with the content area that is being taught. The article also mentions that when student-teachers are out in the field observing their mentor teacher, that the student-teachers don't always get taught or a look at everything that there is to know. When the students finally graduate and begin their career, they have a lot to learn because each school district is different.

As a student intern, I would like to see more of technology uses in the classroom because I believe that the students (depending on the grade level) can benefit a lot from the use of technology equipment.