Reflect upon this week’s content with regard to this idea:As teachers, we are charged with helping our students to understand and navigate the world around them. Has technology made this easier or more difficult?
One thing that stuck me watchig the videos and reading the articles for this week was a sense of fear or discomfort about the future and a sort of unease about the amount that technology has taken over our lives, espescially the parts that are reminiscent of science fiction horrors. I think this encrouchment of technology is more bothersome to "digital captives" than our "digital native students". They don't know any different! I think many students see technology for its possibilities like Aimee Mullens. In some ways, it is students that help us navigate and understand technology, and its conventions. For some of my students this tech has become so vast and ever present, that they struggle to pull themselves away and be present in the moment. I think the connects to Baudrillard and his ideas that we have lost touch with authenticity because we are so used to simulations, as well as the World of Tomorrow short film. I think it is important to help students understand that it is important to have experiences that are real and not filtered through your phone camera on selfie mode. I know I have tried to consciously not take pictures, or post on social meida when I am doing things so that I have a real memory of the experience and not just a digital one. As the students coming to us become more and more immersed in tech and sociel media, it will be more important as teachers that we help them have real phyical experiences that aren't filtered through a phone. However, for all the negatives of tech, I don't think I could go back after teaching in a 1:1 school. It is amazing that the things that students can learn about are not limited to the walls of our classroom and the funds that I and their parents have available to give them these experiences. They are no substittue for the real thing, as I have told them many times that there are some artworks that I didn't appreciate until I saw them in person. But for the students who have never gotten outside of Clarke Co., Iowa, technology gives them a glimpse that there is a vast world out there and hopfully a desire to go out and explore it someday.
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AuthorMorgan Singleton is a secondary art educator with a Master's degree in art education. Archives
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