Karl Fisch: Is It Okay to Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?

Mr. Fisch states in his "Is It Okay to Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?" post that "If a teacher today is not technologically literate - and is unwilling to make the effort to learn more - it's equivalent to a teacher 30 years ago who didn't know how to read and write". Teachers and anybody else working in the education systems should be technologically literate. Technology is available to teachers as an innovative teaching tool, and they should know and understand how the technologies work. Mr. Fisch makes the remark of being able to teach something is knowing how to do that something. In order for teachers to teach technology, they should know how to use it themselves. How can a teacher teach students something that they themselves do not know anything about?

I agree with Mr. Fisch that people who are technologically illiterate and work in the school system should be embarrassed and not proud. Too many people admit that they are not technologically literate. If teachers or anyone else working with children openly admit this then they are admitting that they are not fully teaching their students. Technology has come too far today for people to be illiterate with technology. Just as Mr. Fisch stated in his comment about technologically illiterate teachers being like teachers who cannot read or write, teachers who are not technologically literate are lacking in their education.

Hopefully with today's technological advances, all teachers and school staff are tying to become technologically literate if they are already not technologically literate. Technology is too important to not be used.