Here’s a list of twenty signs you are falling behind — o teacher — when it comes to technology.
What would you add? What’s the #1 sign you are falling behind?
- You think that ‘mobile learning’ is taking a field trip
- You don’t make homework assignments or other important information available to students on a web page
- You don’t even remember how to get to the web page your school provides you
- You think that ‘tweeting’ is what birds do
- You think a Personal Learning Network is your television
- You think social media is just for teenagers and housewives
- You think an iPad is someone’s groovy apartment
- You believe an ‘electronic portfolio’ is a briefcase full of CDs and software
- You wish you knew how to use your Blackberry better
- You think that ‘lecture capture’ is what students do when they take notes
- You think that ‘digital learning’ is something computers do
- You think Instagram is a new service from Western Union
- You think that Vine is something to swing on or pick grapes from
- You’re surprised that most students don’t use email
- You don’t let your students use Wikipedia as a reference
- You glance around nervously and hold on to your desk when you hear the phrase “flipped classroom”
- You still have a modem (okay, really just kidding on that one – the only modems left out there are in museums right?)
- You think MySpace is cool
- You miss your typewriter
- You think ‘gamification’ is what George W. Bush does when he plays Monopoly