Full time teacher and IT Administrator, Vicki Davis, suggests that technology in the classroom is a must for having well-connected students. She says that there are five essentials that students need to be: a connected author, a connected publisher, a connected conversationalist, a strategic disconnector, and a curious, lifelong pursuer of ingenious solutions. Davis encourages teachers to shift this generation from being consumers to being creators. As she concludes, she writes, "We must take time for inventing and programming and using technology. Technology isn't vocational; it is college prep, vocational and life skills, all rolled into one. And it's everywhere: not just in every classroom or in every school.
Davis made some good points in her article about technology in the classroom. Technology is becoming more important for students everyday. It makes me wonder just how much technology will be used in the classroom once I graduate and have my own students. Although I am still wary of so much technology use in the classroom, I am becoming more open-minded about it. I agree with the five essentials that Davis discussed in her article, and like how she encourages educators to shift this generation from being consumers and creators. With technology advancing everyday, it is vital for future educators to make time to understand the positive and negative that comes with excessive technology use in the classroom.
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