I spent this morning in a “technology seminar” designed to teach teachers new to the school system the basics of the technology (read email system) we’ll need to use over the course of the year. I’m reasonably technology literate, so I wasn’t looking forward to it. But I have to say, it was a little worse than I expected. They reminded us how to use Microsoft Word. Personally, I would assume that anyone who was intelligent enough to get their teaching certificate could probably figure out Word, but perhaps I’m wrong.
There were two men “teaching” the seminar. One of them had been a teacher before and one of them hadn’t, and you could definitely tell. It was clear that the teacher believed we were intelligent, capable people. The other man watched over our every move, assuming that if we didn’t do exactly what he said exactly when he said it, we must not have understood or heard him. I kept imagining my own students from last year. I know that there were times when I jumped on their lack of immediate reaction to my directions and explanations. This is one more thing I’ll need to keep in mind for my classroom this year.
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