Thinking Through The Technology Puzzle

David Bowman writes in Thinking Through the Technology Puzzle, that the current backlash against technology in the classroom is “…our own fault. We've been focused on the technologies, not on effective teaching.” He continues in saying that all too often teachers use technology as a reward for getting “real work” done. This is not how it should be done. Mr. Bowman even goes on to give suggestions on how technology might be integrated into various context areas in a way that would facilitate deeper understanding.

I fully agree with Mr. Bowman. In the classrooms that I have worked in, time spent using computers could easily have been spent otherwise. One classroom focused on the internet solely as a way to glean information for research projects. This kind of activity is boring, monotonous, and doesn’t fully take advantage of the kind of things that technology is capable of.

Bowman, David. (October 2004) Thinking Through The Technology Puzzle. The Educational Technology Journal. Last accessed June 10, 2008 from http://fno.org/oct04/integrating.html