Doug Johnson has a short article on The Blue Skunk Blog titled "Seven Stupid Mistakes Teachers Make With Technology" that I think is worth reading. My favorite mistake is #5:
5. Believing that one's teaching style need not change to take full advantage of technology. Using technology to simply add sounds and pictures to lectures is stupid. Smart technology use is about changing the roles of teacher and student. The computer-using student can now be the content expert; the teacher becomes the process expert asking questions like - where did you get that information, how do you know it's accurate; why is it important, how can you let others know what you discovered, and how can you tell if you did a good job? The world has changed and it is rank stupidity not to recognize it and change as well.
Why is it so hard to really truly embrace and believe the fact that the world has changed? What does a teacher who has accepted the change and modified/changed/recreated their teaching look like? I'd like to know if teacher education programs are turning out graduates who are process experts. Are these programs articulating the change successfully?
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