Christine Bodt’s Slidely by Slidely – Slideshow maker

On Thursday in class, Jenny said, “The field of education is not current with the field of technology in outside life”. I am not sure I agree. I know lots of people, living in Toronto (ie a modern, urban centre), who don’t know what Twitter is, let alone use it. I have professional, highly educated friends who don’t have smartphones. Parents of students in my class don’t read our blogs, newsletters etc. and they are wealthy professionals, which is supposed to be a techy demographic (I teach at a private girls school). I have a Twitter account that has been at the bottom of every email since September that I send from my school account and not one new follower has resulted from it — and that includes emailing parents, museums, the symphony and other venues to set up field trips, other educators, you name it. Hmmm. I agree that education is not current with the field of technology, but it’s not just education. Lots of ‘normal folk’ are not ‘current’ either!

I think those of us that are interested in technology are aware there is so much MORE going on in the field, so as a result, we think we are behind (personally and professionally). But others aren’t even aware — and so they have blindsight. But if that’s the ‘majority’ (I feel like it is many more people than just educators) then maybe those of us without blindsight are over concerned that we’re not ‘current’ because it’s actually a small number of techie types that are on the cutting edge and doing stuff we assume everyone is into, or doing, when in reality, it’s just the vocal, techie, few.

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