The article that we looked at one first reading made me feel Exactly what I feel that the writer intended me to feel. Indignant that the Board of Education in Los Angeles would spend this money on technology without thinking, at the cost of teachers jobs.
Looking at it more deeply in the class as we did focussing on the “hot button ” words and phrases reveals that I was biased to believe what the author said, and to think that the big bad bureaucratic board office is evil.
What I have come away with is a reminder to delve in to the etymology of ideas. where do the ideas come from what is the corporate or other affiliations of those whose ideas that I am reading. I have been reading many more blogs by teachers, many of them from the US and what strikes me is that even the teachers often are trying to sell their own products, their own materials through the Teachers Pay Teachers website so a lot of what they’re doing is motivated that with
The title itself iPods versus teachers sets up as Jenny pointed out a dichotomy in which the only two alternatives are iPads delivering content or teachers delivering content without technology. Among the many problems with this whole debate is the idea that technology merely enables traditional curriculum to be delivered in the traditional manner: directly to the students who are an empty vessel to receive this curriculum.
Things have got to change. I have first hand experience that that is not a reality. I cannot do everything on an IPad that I can do on a computer. There are things that I can do with it that I can’t do on a computer. It is not a substitute!