The format of traditional education is something that has been very slow at changing because it is a very difficult and complex thing to change. When you have been doing something the same type of way for so long it is hard to rethink and reform the way it is done. I think that after reading this chapter reform is something that is needed in education because the world is not the same as it used to be. The format for education has been the same for such a long time because there haven’t been that many great changes in the world that would cause the way we educate children to change. One reason that would make this push for reform to halt would be the cost of having technology prevalent in classrooms. To get accomplished what technological enthusiasts want would cost a lot and would almost call for the ratio of computers to students to be one to one. With the tight budgets that school districts are under right now it seems like it would be very difficult to cut more teachers just for more technology in the classroom. It would be very hard to suggest that to a school board. The idea that technology would be undermining educators and that they wouldn’t seem as important is pretty far fetched in my mind. Computers and technology are tools and people are needed to use those tools. You still need educators to show students how to use these tools effectively and by doing this you can educate children by using these tools. Educators should still be able to manage their students if they are using computers no different then if the students were in a lab using a device to get measurements. Educators have to find ways to manage their classrooms and I don’t believe that just because students are on computers it means that it would be that much more difficult. I strongly believe that it is true that computers cannot teach everything. Why would I be going in to education if I thought students could just learn everything by just booting up a computer? Like I said a computer is a tool that can be used to educate students in a different way. A classroom and teacher is still needed to teach students what they need to know. In my mind technology is there to help.
As a future teacher I will have to make sure that I am following the curriculum that has been laid out before me but I can do this in many ways. I do believe that the laid out curriculum in education is getting larger and larger. It has to be getting larger because we are learning new things everyday and they are important. Plus we want them to learn things from the past because we don’t just want to throw things out that we think are still important. That is why I think technology can be used to cover a wide range of things and help them learn. It can be a lot faster with technology to learn things and if you forget you can look them up. When students get out into the real world it isn’t like they are just shoved into a job and they have to remember everything that they learned in school and if they forget it well then their job will suffer. They are able to look things up and use technology to their advantage. They will also have co-workers to help them out if they forget something. That is why I think group work can be effective because they can learn from each other. Also using computers can be helpful because they can look up information they may have forgotten that may help them on an assignment. I don’t think that is cheating I think that is being resourceful because they are still learning in that is the main goal of education. I don’t think they should rely on other things or people all of the time that is why there still needs to be assessment but I feel that students can learn better with the help of others and technology.
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