DEJ #11: Thinking Creatively

I completely agree with the fact that not everyone is cut out to be a teacher. Quality teaching is the transformation of content. Just because you are wonderful in a field of study, i.e. math, doesn't mean that you should teach it. Being able to teach someone something requires more than just being competent in that field. Also, the Plato quote really stood out to me. I hadn't really thought about it before, but it is so simple to just look up the information you need instead of memorizing it. I find myself doing it in certain areas of my own study. The challenge for a teacher would be to help the students remember the information they are teaching for the long term. Technology, I think, is both the cause and the solution in this case. On account of the information being so readily available via technology, students no longer have to memorize the information they are being taught. However, I think teachers can access technology and use it to their advantage to help students LEARN the material. Another good point that the video brought up is that technology is changing and expanding at such a rapid pace, it's hard to keep up. Teachers must keep up with the changing technology so that they can offer their students a broad education.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNoijjIrPT8