Carol Rice (cjrice@usit.net)
Wed, 02 Dec 1998 04:47:42 -0800
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 04:47:42 -0800 From: Carol Rice <cjrice@usit.net> Subject: Re: [ifets] Teachers & Technology Refusal
In response to Barbara's comparison of the gender-biased reactions to
computor-technology: There are 30+ instructors at my elementary school.
Three of these instructors, including the principal use technology as a
magic wand. Out of the remaining 27 teachers, which are female, 14 use the
computor for everything that pleases them, from elaborate parent letters,
curriculum logs, student pages, memos, and web pages. The administration has
pushed for exposure to technology with their own modelling of best
practices. Our school is in a very rural setting, yet television has
equalized the exposure of allto new ideas through the decades. If our
neighbors can use technology, we believe that we can also. Those who allow
fear to chain them in or lock them out of this information age will pay the
price for their students. There is no longer a choice. When students are
more knowledgable as five-year-olds in computor graphics and symbols, the
fear of slipping behind must overtake the fear of new ideas.
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