Fischbowl: It is Okay to be Technologically Illiterate?

Karl Fisch, a teacher and technology education specialist at Arapahoe High school in Littleton, Colorado wrote a blog post on his blog, The Fischbowl, titled Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher? You can find it by clicking here. I quite enjoyed the post because I completely understand the frustration. I know that I'm fortunate enough to live in a time when I started using computers in middle school, so I have had many years of practice at being "technologically literate." But I completely agree with Mr. Fisch. All teachers should be held accountable for how well they can use technology. Working towards my teaching degree, I work for a university in the support staff, and I hear all the time what he talks about. College professors, with doctorate degrees, speaking of how they are very computer literate. And when he or she says it, it is thought, by the person speaking, that it is completely acceptable to be this way. Also, because I have always been able to figure things out on a computer just be dawdling with it and trying different things out until I figure out the solution, sometimes I become a "go-to" girl for random questions about something on the computer.

As a teacher, you have the responsibility to your students. If you are not as technology savvy as your students, you will be left behind. I am a very firm believer in modeling for children, especially students. Mr. Fisch spoke about this in his blog also. If you can not learn new things, and be able to do all of things that your students are expected to do, how can you expect your students to??