First, watch this video:
Disclaimer: I am obviously interested in technology, but I just had to make a video reaction myself:
1. Test scores do not equate to the "best teaching practices". We have to look at curriculum and teaching practices based on our specific student groups.
2. Entertaining students does not necessarily change the content that we have to teach. A good teacher tries her best to engage students, but not all students will always feel that the subject is interesting.
3. Schools should be working more with teachers to slowly introduce technology rather than require it for all teachers and then scrambling later.
I like what you said about technology being used as entertainment. I think sometimes teachers think that if they use technology, it will make the lesson or the content automatically better. I also worry that sometimes the students rely too much now on being entertained and sometimes these videos or some education experts make it sound like if you aren't using all the bells and whistles every minute of every day the kids aren't going to be entertained and therefore aren't going to pay attention. I think we have to be careful about integration and not setting the bar so high that the expectation is that tech is going to be used in every lesson every day or we will never sleep!
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