Best of Fischbowl 2007 (September)

For this blog I explored another one of Karl Fisch's always entertaining blogs. This blog the he wrote actually won an Edublog Award for being the most influential post of 2007. While Fisch does not seem to be too excited about it, it seems like a great achievement and was very well deserved. In his award-winning post, Fisch explains why he believes that all teachers should be computer literate. He makes a very true statement where he says that a teacher that is technoligically illiterate by today's standards is the same as a teacher who could not read about thirty years ago. It was a very bold statement, but also very true at the same time. He goes onto explain that the students are depending on their teachers to know how to use computers, and they do not have time to just wait around for them to figure it out.

Teachers have a responsibility to teach students and prepare them for the future. How can the teachers prepare their students for a technology filled future if they are not even prepared themselves? Fisch states that it is impossible to model your students if you yourself are not even literate. He says that it has been getting harder and harder to be truly successful, and as we get further into the 21st century it will be even harder if you are not technologically literate. Fisch also says that some people argue that teachers may have too much on their plate to take up such a big task. However, when you have students and their futures depending on you, no task is too big. Karl Fisch's blog was very informative and very true. It is so important for teachers to become technologically literate, especially nowadays. Students are depending on their teachers to teach them the skills that they will need to be successful, which means that the teachers must lear and master the skills themselves if they want to be successful.