Official Start Time: 8:00 p.m.
Date: 4/10/09
Official End Time: 8:30 p.m.
The introduction of technology to the everyday classroom marked the birth of a new generation of learners who were "blessed" with being born in a world not ready for them. Prior to the 21st century, education was pretty predictable. You started kindergarten at age 5 and by the time you were 17, you were off to college and ready for the real world. This was during a simpler time where teachers could use books and chalk to prepare their students for a world that had never heard of the Internet and the demons that awaited them.
Technology however rewrote the books and put educators in a awkward spot as no longer were books and standardized testing enough to prepare students for life in a global society. Technology opened a new can of worms for educators to deal with as the Internet brought people from all over the world together and with it the competition and greed that consumes man's every whim.
The introduction of technology to the everyday classroom started way before Window's 95 and the birth of innovation. Technology first made its way into the classroom with the introduction of television in education and how it redefined teaching. Educational programing took visual learners to new frontiers as science, technology, engineering, and math leapt off the 2-d pages they were printed on, and onto projectors and television screens that redefined how students learned. In many ways, television, or the "idiot box" as it was often referred to, marked the general decline of learning as students were exposed to a new frontier that had no water or life support to guide it. They were literally pioneers in age of experimentation.
From here technology continued to push its way into our children's education through compact disk and computer screens that would feed vicious learners with information that lacked guidance and structure. It wasn't technologies fault that education took a turn for the worst; it was man's fault. Similar to the cultural withdrawal of the Middle Ages, technology exposed man to an avenue of instant information that could be saved, copied, and shared with an online community that had no idea how they would organize this new median. Things have gotten better but man's greed and false ambitions still inhibit education's potential and the future that lays ahead.
Sincerely, Hector Guzman
Date: 4/10/09
Official End Time: 8:30 p.m.
The introduction of technology to the everyday classroom marked the birth of a new generation of learners who were "blessed" with being born in a world not ready for them. Prior to the 21st century, education was pretty predictable. You started kindergarten at age 5 and by the time you were 17, you were off to college and ready for the real world. This was during a simpler time where teachers could use books and chalk to prepare their students for a world that had never heard of the Internet and the demons that awaited them.
Technology however rewrote the books and put educators in a awkward spot as no longer were books and standardized testing enough to prepare students for life in a global society. Technology opened a new can of worms for educators to deal with as the Internet brought people from all over the world together and with it the competition and greed that consumes man's every whim.
The introduction of technology to the everyday classroom started way before Window's 95 and the birth of innovation. Technology first made its way into the classroom with the introduction of television in education and how it redefined teaching. Educational programing took visual learners to new frontiers as science, technology, engineering, and math leapt off the 2-d pages they were printed on, and onto projectors and television screens that redefined how students learned. In many ways, television, or the "idiot box" as it was often referred to, marked the general decline of learning as students were exposed to a new frontier that had no water or life support to guide it. They were literally pioneers in age of experimentation.
From here technology continued to push its way into our children's education through compact disk and computer screens that would feed vicious learners with information that lacked guidance and structure. It wasn't technologies fault that education took a turn for the worst; it was man's fault. Similar to the cultural withdrawal of the Middle Ages, technology exposed man to an avenue of instant information that could be saved, copied, and shared with an online community that had no idea how they would organize this new median. Things have gotten better but man's greed and false ambitions still inhibit education's potential and the future that lays ahead.
Sincerely, Hector Guzman
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