I am excited to learn the things featured in this class. Many of the things like YouTube, podcasts and blogs for example are how our students communicate today. I feel like the teacher mentioned in class that is often behind the students. Knowing these skills will help me as a teacher and future administrator. I am frustrated though, because our school district’s technology department seems to want to keep kids and teachers from accessing technology. I realize there are good reason for firewalls, filters and procedures for accessing new technology, but they won’t even let us change the picture on the desktop for god’s sake. Isn’t our job as teachers to remove obstacles for our students and as administrators to knock down barriers to effective teaching? I am sad to say that much of what I will learn in this class (i.e, podcasts and blogs) I will not be allowed in our district.
Kevin Gunn
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I agree with the need for administration to give students and teachers alike the opportunity to create a better learning environment by giving us mor freedom to utilize the internet. I believe the key is supervision by responsible teachers. I believe that we have that at Orion High School, and it's time the overbearing filters to be changed. I can't even access this blog at my computer.
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