Digital Upgrade

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade

1.       I think my teachers could have prepared me better by using a lot more technology in their teaching. Such as doing assignments through the computer and also doing their lectures by computer and slide shows. Also by putting the important things on a website like Moodle so that kids could always have access to them.

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.       I know for a fact that I will have to use computers because that’s how everything is now. I think so far Oakland has done a very f\good job of preparing me for that because almost everything is online and that helps me get use to all of the new websites and technology.

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.       I feel that I can write more comfortable on the computer just because its more private and I can keep mostly to myself, at least until I’m done writing.

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.       If I were I teacher I would try to use technology the most I could. I would do online assignments such as ALEKS and maybe do something in class with online assignments or maybe answering questions through a text or use the i>Clickers like some teachers already do.

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.       I agree with what Virginia Heffernan is saying in this article. I agree that a lot of the jobs that we have now won’t be here or won’t be the same when we get older. There is going to be more technology involved in everything we do by then that it will be impossible to avoid. So we need to start now in preparing for these future jobs and even for the ways that people will be teaching in the future.