I am serious about the shock that I have gone through in class last week! I have always been aware that extra precautions need to be taken into consideration and implemented bringing young learners online. However, listening to real stories and experience from Denise and classmates has brought me to realize how big the challenge is for Pk-6 teachers to include technology in their classrooms, which is in fact beyond my anticipation. However, I still think it's absolutely worth the efforts trying and making it happen for the following reason:
"What makes today's kids really sip up and fires their neutral fibers? Technology. Kids don't see laptops, MP3 players, cell phones, PDAs, DVD players, and video games as technology, it's just life. Therefore, schools need to connect education to their students' lives with technology."~ Todd E. Wright, a forth grade teacher (Barone and Wright, 2008)
I have been dealing with university students who are fully functioning adults, therefore, I had never worried about getting parents consent forms for any of the online activities from my syllabus. However, the discussions have alerted to my attention in terms of the security issue and their reaction to online crisis management for young adults, which has been overlooked in my teaching career. For that, I'm grateful to have the opportunity to sit in the discussion.
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The realities of struggling to enhance technology in an elementary school is alive and well. Just last week I met with one of our district technology guy and the district barely funds technology for allowing teachers to have PCs in every classroom. The district doesn't even budget money for schools to have labs. Sad, when we are talking about creating 21st century learners.
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