Thing #6

For this week, please read this award winning post by Karl Fisch, entitled: Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?
 

I posted this on his site and it is a good description of how I feel on the subject.   

Karl, I agree with you for the most part. I do feel a large difference between the level of our society's acceptance of being inadequate at math and/or tech. , but not reading. I feel this idea comes from our focus on reading at the lower grade levels. We put such a great importance on how well our youngsters read and reward them for getting better that they focus and work hard on those skills. Why is that? One possibility may be the fact the early elementary teachers in the US are good at reading and teaching it. Or they do not feel as good about math. I feel we need to bring about a change to our society and have all teachers be given guidance and help to make sure that they help kids learn to love math and technology in the say way they have them learn to love reading. By putting math and technology on the same level as reading I feel we can begin to change our kids for the better. Making those who are good at reading as well as those who are good at math and tech. feel proud of their accomplishments, but also feeling motivated to work on their needs in the other areas.