Journal 5 - Creating Tech Wizards

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I chose this article because I feel that by going through this class we are going to be able to help become part of the group who creates Tech Wizards!

The article discusses how an area set up a group for students to represent their school in technology and to show how god the students were at using technology. As the students of today are more dependent on technology and also more technologically advanced when they enter school, it makes sense for teachers to offer something for students to show how talented they are with computers.

The other aspects that came out of the original program, at the different schools, also show that the students can become important to the school and also more involved in the school. It offers those students who are not the usual students who do well in the school and who are often looked over.

Finally the way in which the students at one school offered the teachers lessons and appointments to learn how to use the technology and other programs, highlights the importance for teachers of technology in the classroom.

Should ALL teachers (qualified and unqualified) have to take a technology class?

I feel that it would be beneficial to all student teachers (like us) to take a technology class as we are, however I also feel that all teachers who are currently teaching should be made to take a class on how to use technology. I know when I was in school a lot of my teachers did not know how to use the computer and the students had to show the teachers what to do, the teachers should be the ones teaching the students, not the other way round.

How would technology classes for students before and after school benefit students?

Not only would they enable students to learn more and to become more technologically proficient it could also enable students who do not have access to a computer, the chance to use the computer to do homework and also to not feel inadequate as they too would have the opportunity to participate in classes fully and also by providing students with the ability to improve their skills to enter into the workforce once they leave school.