Edci 320 Ch. 4 reflections

1. Identify what is meant by technological literacy for the twenty-first century.

Technological literacy is what teachers have to provide children of the twenty-first century in order to be able to communicate within society. The children have to learn the basics of how a technology works and at the same time be taught using the same technology. The book uses the phrase "thinking strategically with technology" frequently. This statement means that students have to use the technology to solve problems and think critically. It is the teachers job to monitor each student growth with this new technology.

I thought the NETS Standards was a useful guideline for teaching using technology. I especially liked NETS Standard number six. It explained that teachers need to use technology to think outside of the text book and apply it to the real world. In high school we were learning about the stock market in my Government class. Our teacher used an online stock game that actually mimicked the real stock market and gave us fake money to invest. We had to think how the stock market was actually affected by events in the world. Participating in the stock market gave us a much deeper understanding of what it's definition.

If a student does poorly on a assignment using technology how can a teacher understand if it is the student who did not put in effort or if the teacher taught it poorly?