This years more than any other year at LaSalle, so many of my teachers have required extensive work using technology. For my main education class I have had to make a virtual museum, a detailed web quest, a interactive game using PowerPoint, create a movie from my teaching experience using movie maker, and submit almost everything using blackboard, which I can't stand using! Trust me when I tell you these projects were not easy at ALL. In addition to that class I have this class....which requires me to blog....and I'll be honest I don't do much of it. I just get very frustrated with all this computer work on top of other class work. Especially when this added feature of technology is NO WHERE TO BE FOUND in the course description book.
However, I think what bugs me the most is when teachers state, well "you should know how to do this because you are young and grew up with computers." or "as a freshman you had a take a computer science class so I don't know why this is hard now." First off just cuz I'm in my 20's does NOT in any sense make me computer literate. Second my computer science class was a joke. I learned how to use different font and space in word. I personally hate using computers and since the start of this semester my computer has spent a lot of time sitting in St. Katherine's IT department.
I guess the point of all of this is.....such large emphasis is going to be place on technology and the use of it, then it needs to be stated in course description, before a student takes the class. Many times having the option to drop the class once registered is impossible!
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Are you taking that Teachers and Technology class? I get to take that next semester, that sounds like a load of not fun.
My undergrad did not require that I take a computer science class. In half of my english classes we had "library tuitorials" which taught us how to use the library's databases and search engines. But no actual computer class required.
Luckily I grew up with a computer in the house and a computer savvy father who taught me at least the basics.
I am ambivalent toward technology. I guess it is kind of a love/hate relationship. I dont mind doing what I know, but once I am challenged in technology I pretty much shut down and have a temper tantrum.
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