7 Stupid Mistakes Teachers Make With Technology and 7 Brilliant Things Teachers Do With Technology

Seven Brilliant Things Teachers Do With Technology
1. Empower kids with technology. Technology is an amplifier of natural abilities. Brilliant teachers see that good writers become better writers, good debaters become better debaters, good French speakers become better French speakers, good mathematical problem-solvers become better mathematical problem-solvers, and so on. by helping their students harness technology. They do not see technology as a crutch, but as a propellant. Brilliant teachers have experienced the empowering power of technology themselves. Brilliant teachers use good assessment strategies to rigorously determine the quality of technology-enhanced projects.

I think that this is imperative for teachers. You have to empower your students with technology. Teach them how to use it, then watch them create.

5. Accept the role of co-leaner. One of the best signs of intelligent people is that they tend to willingly admit when they don't know something. Brilliant teachers not only accept the dismal fact that they will never know all there is to know about technology, they also turn that condition into a classroom advantage by having their brilliant children teach them how to do something techie now and then.

To be a good teacher I think that you have to learn along side of your students. You will never know everything but the pursuit of trying to know everything is what will make you a better teacher.





Seven Stupid Mistakes Teachers Make With Technology
3. Not supervising computer-using students. It is really stupid to believe Internet filters will keep kids out of trouble on the Internet. If they choose to do so, even the slow kids who can't get around the school's filter, can still exploit that 10 percent of porn sites the filter won't catch. They can still send cyberbullying e-mail -- maybe even using your e-mail address. Or they can just plain waste time.

I think that this is one of the things that teachers can do with technology that you can consider stupid. You can't leave a kid alone with anything without them figuring out some way to do something that they are not suppose to. It is way to easy to get around the filters on computers and they will find some way to do it.

6. Ignoring the intrinsic interest of tech use in today's kids. Kids like technology. Not using it as a hook to motivate and interest them in their education is stupid.

This is probably the stupidest mistake you can make as a teacher. Technology is changing and expanding at a pace that most people can not keep up with. Children grasp this technology much faster and embrace it more than we do. If you do not embrace it as well and use it then you are doing yourself and your students an injustice.