At a recent meeting of our school's Academic Technology committe, I showed Carl Fisch's "Did You Know" to the members of the board (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI). They were awestruck at the presentation and almost looked "defeated" after consuming the information about the technology and digital divide between the U.S. and the rest of the world, not to mention the divide between the faculty members in attendance and the students they are teaching.
I briefly spoke about the presentation and the school's need to improve technology literacy among the faculty and more importantly, among the students. I handed out a hotlist of weblinks to technology resources to get their minds working and also asked the 10 people in attendance if they knew was Web 2.0 was. (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/list_of_web_20.php).
No one in the room had even heard about it, let alone used it in the classroom.
I would imagine my experience in trying to explain Web 2.0. to faculty members is the norm and not the exeception. Which does not bode well for our students.
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Whoa, Rob. Powerful experience. The kind of breakthrough moment that an Instructional Technology Specialist needs to gear up for a school-wide workshop on technology integration. You've captured the "ears" of the right people. Way to be "proactive," especially by providing you list of resources. Move on it.
SG
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