Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Getting online training
As a college student I guess you could say I have a spirit of someone of another generation. I look around me every day on campus and the things I see people doing much of the time seems to go against the whole purpose of us being here. The attitude that people often bring to class makes me feel like an outsider because I think that if is important to have fun but the main purpose of us all being here gathered together is to grow and become professionals and responsible adults for the next generation of this country to be a better place. Unfortunately I don't think most other students either feel this way or ever even consider their behavior to be an area where they need to grow. Instead they think that academics is everything, when in reality that is just not true.
That having been said, I want to also say that I have thought about this a lot because I am going to become an educator. Even among people in my education classes, I am one of the few people who reads reports from the U.S. Dept. of Education. I guess I am just of the mindset that I must make the best of this experience, and every experience for that matter, and in doing so I will come out of the other end with skills needed to handle my own classroom. A big part of what I am trying to do with my spare time is to get some independent online training. Online computer training is super important for anyone going on to something professional in the future, but for teachers it is quite important as a tool within the developing educational atmosphere. The Growth of e-learning in today's classroom is such a big deal that many of my professors feel that it is just as important to understand your subject areas as it is to understand how to use technology properly. By the time my own future students reach their professional careers their training with technology may be the most important skill they learn before going to college. Elearning is something that is undeniably part of the future for us as educators and we must make ourselves prepared to teach in that world.
Mike @ 8:34 AM