Feeling the Pressure

I'm starting to feel the pressure of implementing technology more and more readily within my lesson plans; not by the fault of administration, but because of the pressing need for students to know and understand the different kinds of technological advances that society is implementing.

Many of my students are feeling increasingly interested in the "Walking Dead," the zombie movement, and I keep thinking there has to be a way to have students feel more connected through technology by examining the make up, still action shots and camera angles (like the readings this week) in order for us to understand more important aspects of student learning/technology implementation. I'd like to think that I should be creating a world that uses student learning with student interest.....an age old question!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcus-t-wright/we-have-what-we-need-the-_b_4137114.html

I think this editorial is interesting, it talks about us, "Having what we need," but being unable to implement it appropriately and conform our lessons we feel like we have to teach to fit this technology. I find the article a bit sugary at the end but also empowering; we have to use what we have not to just impress our counter-parts in education but be more engaged in helping our students learn and use what we have. Don't waste resources, or under-use, but don't over use to the point that students are never unplugged from being online.


I saw this comic a while ago and realized it might be where we are getting to. I think that its a powerful statement; why can't we use our cellphones to communicate? Is it because a few people can't use them appropriately that we all suffer...ugh! So many questions. I feel like my blogs have become an endless strings of elements I just need other's opinions on.