I've learned a lot this week about how technology should be implemented into curriculum, and how to do it in the most meaningful ways. What I still ponder is if we should have technology be its own "subject" or work on integrating it with all subjects.
We continually hear the benefits of a interdisciplinary lesson plan, and how we should be should try to relate lessons into all subjects. Would creating technology as its own subject discourage teachers to put it into their lessons in meaningful ways? I would like to say no, but I'm not sure. On the other hand if we are left to integrate technology into our lesson plans on our own, who's to say thats going to happen...teachers would be responsible for finding the deeper ways to bring technology into all the subjects. If teachers haven't had the proper training, or been exposed to the resources available this would be very difficult to do. Let's face it...there are a lot of teachers that are not exposed to these things, and some school districts don't see it as important as some other issues schools are facing.
All in all I think we can all agree that technology needs to be a part of the curriculum. If it is its own subject, that shouldn't discount the fact that it should also be included in other subjects.
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