KCTV5 and tech follow-up amid labor concerns that weigh instructor obsolescence as more important than student accessibility: As first schools get laptops, teachers worried about lack of training
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PCs have been out for over 30 years. Any teacher that needs training needs to be gone.
ReplyDelete10:28 I agree. A teacher should have enough curiously to keep up on technology on their own. It should be the teachers themselves who are the vanguard for promoting the use of tablets in education. It is a dirty little secret that the best and brightest college students are not the ones found in the education department. The bright ones go on to graduate school or to professional schools like medicine, law or business.
ReplyDeleteYou will not or you do not find someone teaching high school chemistry who chose it over going to medical school. You can get a Ph.D in chemistry and teach chemistry on the university level to people who will teach high school chemistry but you cannot teach high school chemistry yourself without a teaching certificate.
You will find on the university level, all most all tenured professors do not have a K to 12 teaching certificate unless they are in the education department. Why do education departments offer a Doctor of Education (Ed.D) degree as their highest degree as opposed to a Ph.D like other academic departments? Those people in education departments, cannot pass the requirements needed for the degree to be a Ph.D. The common excuse as an answer to that question is that an Ed.D is practical degree and not a research degree like a Ph.D. People still ask why we have a crisis in education. It is not test scores, it is the people who the teacher’s union allow to teach.
@10:28 It is not that teachers do not know how to use a PC. The teachers still do not the following:
ReplyDelete1. What device the students are receiving. I'm not shitting you. I would have a hard time teaching without a computer in the classroom. It would be nice to know what device the students will be receiving.
2. What operating system and software will be on the student system. We don't know any of the policies and procedures for loading apps. on the student devices.
3. Do the students have district email accounts? If so what are they?
4. Do the students have internet access at home now? This is a huge stumbling block if they don't.
5. What rules and policies do the students have to follow with regard to these devices?
@1:11 The union does not dictate teacher certification; the state does. Anybody with a PHD or even a masters in Chemistry can get a provisional certificate rather easily. I agree advanced education degrees are worthless. This is not so much an issue on the teacher side of the equation, rather it is a huge issue on the administrative. Those who can't teach become administrators.
2:11 You have excellent points and I agree with 95% of what you have said; however, I would counter that the teacher unions do lobby intensely for the current certification requirements and the relaxing of those requirements to recruit teachers from non-education major backgrounds. Another problem is that a teacher can be certified in an area in which they only have a minor in the subject.
ReplyDeleteTo claim a laptop is going to teach or inspire my kid to do better math or whatever is complete and total bullshit.
ReplyDeleteAny nincompoop can learn to use a computer and the internet.