Blog 6 Classroom Tech: What to Do When Students Know More Than Teachers?

Today many students know more about technology than the teacher. This can be a big problem when it comes for the teacher to teach this. Many kids today are using tech most if not all the time, while some teachers are not up to-date with tech. They did a study to see if the children use tech more than their teachers, the results were that the kids used tech more in their life than any of the teachers. In classes in South Carolina, schools are teaching teachers to learn how to use things such as YouTube and Skype to make teaching easier for them. This is great to help teachers who don’t have a good understanding of technology today. If the teachers here aren’t up to date with tech imagine the teachers in other countries. This can be a big problem for many. If the student knows more than the teacher then this is a big problem. We should be showing teachers everywhere how technology today can help teaching in the classroom. This would greatly help out academics if we informed every teacher on new tech to help them with the students and help in their lessons. Many people believe you enhance students learning experience if you have technology assisting the teacher. Other countries are learning the importance of having technology in the school programs as they are very beneficial. If we spend the money on enhancing the learning programs everywhere with tech we will find this to be very beneficial to everyone as kids would be learning a lot more if we used tech to help enhance the learning process for kids.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/27/classroom-tech-students-know-teachers/