Teachers and Technology

Why do we still keep on debating a way of world? Why do we need to think so much on embracing a necessary change? And when we do need to get on to a change, we all know, Sooner the Better. So where else to start on the bandwagon than classrooms! With responsibility to guide young children and enabling them, it becomes all the more imperative that teachers embrace technology and bring them to classroom. Education is all about learning and enabling to be able to make best use of what is available today and improve upon it or find new knowledge for a better tomorrow. So better knowledge management, better access to information, innovative means to seeing things work in simulated environments, access to all sort of books on kindle, continuous access to search engines on your cell phones, all need to be absorbed into our day.

Imagine how fast and efficient our research gets when we do not need to wait for weeks to get that elusive research paper from a distant library. Think how fast our experiments become when computers can perform hundred million iterations for analyzing and fitting an equation on your data. But we can use all this if we are on top of technology not grappling with it. Or just think how effective teaching becomes when we are able to use 3-D teaching aids, models, presentations in class. We can just bring in a Harvard Professor right into any classroom with his ideas and style. We can just have any of the best statesmen in world right amongst our students. Or we can see how Newton could not see Apple Flying upwards or what trajectory a missile will take right in classroom and not use up any funds on physical models.

Opportunities are vast, potential is huge but then responsibility is enormous. We cannot teach what we ourselves struggle with. So it is very important for teachers to be tech savvy, IT Savvy, Computer Savvy. Call it by any name but it is just saying, “Teachers, you need to be updated with times!”