Reading: 21st century skills

          After reviewing the 21st Century Literacy website, I have learned that it is important for teachers to incorporate technology in the classroom. Today’s society is extremely competitive, and students need to posses strong academic skills, thinking, reasoning, team work skills, and proficiency in using technology. In addition, it is also the teacher’s responsibility to facilitate technology in the classroom effectively in order to prepare the students of the future. The use of technology in schools today has become more positive because the use of technology helps the environment, it makes the course work interesting, helps with collaborative learning, and allows the students to be creative. Technology is also more convenient for both the teachers and the parents in regards to the students’ performances in the classroom, behavior, absences, or important board of education reminders.
         Although technology serves as a convenient source, the use of technology can also be negative. The use of technology may have negative affects on most children because many children of today are not productive. For example, the obesity rate has heightened, and diabetes has become an issue in young children. In addition, budget cuts indicates limited resources to the schools, especially low economic schools, and what about the teachers? Teachers are the main source as to how children will acquire these educational skills in order to advance throughout the world! Some critics argue that students can learn just as much, probably more, with or without teachers due to technological advances around the globe.
           As a result, I have also learned that technology is needed in order to communicate with others, and used as educational tools. Technology may be scary for those who are in the older generation because they have to slowly adapt to the world that is changing around them. I believe that technology will prepare the future students of America because now computers are being integrated into the schools. When students learn a new concept when they are young, it will not be hard for them to adapt to possible new technologies in the future to come because they have already mastered the intricate information in schools as to how to perform many technological tasks. This is why higher education has created the computer courses in the colleges and universities so that the future teachers will learn these new advances and teach the future students of today, and in turn learn from the students.