Teaching for the Future

New thinking that I took away from class today:

My professor Jeff Boyer said that if we intend to teach the way we were taught, we are teaching students to live in our past. I think that this statement is very powerful. I often feel quite irritated by my parents' and grandparents' technological ignorance, and I wonder why it's so difficult for adults to keep up with technology advances. However, now it's becoming quite apparent that in my few years out of high school, I have fallen behind myself. Classroom equipment has been refreshed. We have SMARTboards instead of chalk/marker boards and ceiling projectors instead of overhead projectors wheeled out on carts. There's new software and computers are constantly being updated. It's no wonder that adults fall behind; there's no possible way I could afford to keep up financially with all the new stuff on my own; but fortunately has a teacher, I will have access to new technology via the school and it's my job to put that technology to use in my classroom and teach students to adapt as the world around them changes, after all the stuff I teach them will be outdated in a matter of a few years.