Technology a sea of problems

Technology provides proof human beings have managed to grasp some essence of truth about the universe. Perhaps we don’t know everything, but we sure know more than we have in the past.

Journalists such as ourselves thank Guttenburg for the printing press; we all thank Whitney for the cotton gin and interchangeable part, and college students especially appreciate Berners-Lee for world wide web, an innovational tool allowing the pornography industry to bound into the future.

Education has benefited immensely as well. Our classrooms are now equipped with the latest technology to enhance the teaching and learning experience. Computers, Smart Boards ^TM©® and amazing software/network features allow a plethora of information to flow into our campus, as if our classrooms are tugboats rounding the corner into a tempest of technology.

Amazingly though, many of the seamen guiding the students through the maelstrom and into the future find themselves suffering from the Odyssean complex. That is the latest technology is meaningless to the pedagogical needs of the students if the instructors don’t know how to use it.

Knowing how to use technology transcends simply knowing how to use a computer; it means knowing how to use the computer in the classroom for teaching purposes.

Supposedly, that will be the job of the instructional specialist Title III will allow us to hire. Let us hope that person is a Steamboat Mickey, leading us into the future.