Teachers and Technology

I hunted down a few faculty members from my local community college and asked them a series of questions pertaining to the harm or benefits of technology and how it influences their career as a teacher. Many of the responses were common, the teachers appreciate the new technology in the college because they can communicate with their students out side of class through the schools email webpage which allows them to not have to share private information like a cell phone number or personal email address. Besides that the technology also helps the teacher to post grades and assignments for the students in case the students miss class or are curious to know how they are doing in their course. There are some issues though that were brought to light by a teacher who gives lessons on math. The professor explains how the technology used for doing math homework online keeps changing and giving the students trouble in becoming familiar with how to use the software, and some days the program doesn't want to work so the students cannot complete their assignments. Over all technology is expanding the capability that the students and teachers can progress in education but sometimes it is felt that technology might be growing faster than the average human can keep up with.

Google Images (Student doing Math Hmwk)

One teacher really stood out to me, Mr. Science was able to explain to me how technology shouldn't be narrowed to the viewpoints of when it doesn't work for us but instead how it has helped us over hundreds of years. Through education technology has benefited humanity since the first day it was discovered, technology itself teaches us and motivates us to learn. But taking that thought outside of the box, technology has created maps to memories in geology and life on earth. Scientist have been able to use this new discovery to continuously learn new secrets of the earth and apply it to the world, to discover what the weather will be like in a month and prepare for disasters that may destroy many lives when not aware of what is coming. This professor saw technology as a tool that has opened the human eye to a world that we couldn't see before, a world that has allowed us to be where we are today. People think technology and think about teenagers dying in car crashes, as that may be true its also true that technology has found cures for many sicknesses that before would be the causes of thousands of deaths. It all depends what part of life you have experienced that allows you to see certain sides of this endless world of possibilities.

YouTube (Geology's new tool)