Submitted by Bonnie Sutton (not verified) on April 12, 2007 - 15:03.
Educators often do not have freedom of speech or action. In the classroom is one thing, but it has been interesting to be an educator who got it that technology makes a difference in teaching and learning. What that has gotten me is a lot of administrative decision making to move me from schools, from the use of programs, Kidsnetwork, from using programs that supervisors did not know, Voyage of the Mimi 2 ( fortunately that program was not claimed by anyone and was allowed ).
Once I did a radio program and my principal called me to the office and yelled at me because I said that technology and other media could replace the constant use of books in a classroom.
That time they moved me to a high school to teach students who were considered dropouts, That worked for me. The high schools was wonderful.
Then I was moved to an elementary school. I was not moved because of any difficulty. I wanted to teach students again, but I was given the job of technology teacher. The problem with this was the use of programs and resources. The teacher who was the technology assistant and support for me, only wanted me to use shareware.
I could not believe it. The reason for this was because it was safe. Oh my! I was not allowed to use NASA resources because they were on the Internet. The Internet, I was told was a bad place for a school computer. Never mind the good things. It was unbelievable.
I finally was able to demonstrate, using AOL and a telephone line that there was substance in the resources that I was using. But being a technology advocate has its problems.
The problem in the last school was that we read newspapers on line. We were only supposed to read the kiddy newspapers. We were accessing the space program news reports.
Educators often do not have
Submitted by Bonnie Sutton (not verified) on April 12, 2007 - 15:03.
Educators often do not have freedom of speech or action. In the classroom is one thing, but it has been interesting to be an educator who got it that technology makes a difference in teaching and learning. What that has gotten me is a lot of administrative decision making to move me from schools, from the use of programs, Kidsnetwork, from using programs that supervisors did not know, Voyage of the Mimi 2 ( fortunately that program was not claimed by anyone and was allowed ).
Once I did a radio program and my principal called me to the office and yelled at me because I said that technology and other media could replace the constant use of books in a classroom.
That time they moved me to a high school to teach students who were considered dropouts, That worked for me. The high schools was wonderful.
Then I was moved to an elementary school. I was not moved because of any difficulty. I wanted to teach students again, but I was given the job of technology teacher. The problem with this was the use of programs and resources. The teacher who was the technology assistant and support for me, only wanted me to use shareware.
I could not believe it. The reason for this was because it was safe. Oh my! I was not allowed to use NASA resources because they were on the Internet. The Internet, I was told was a bad place for a school computer. Never mind the good things. It was unbelievable.
I finally was able to demonstrate, using AOL and a telephone line that there was substance in the resources that I was using. But being a technology advocate has its problems.
The problem in the last school was that we read newspapers on line. We were only supposed to read the kiddy newspapers. We were accessing the space program news reports.
Too much for me.