Here is the link to the site with the 30-day challenge.
Day 28
Respond: Should technology drive curriculum, or vice versa?
I actually Googled this question to see what would come up and found quite an array of answers. I found several posts that said, " I don't think technology should drive curriculum, but the curriculum can certainly drive the technology!"
I could not DISAGREE more with that sentiment; and I really think that the answer to this question has more than just a black and white answer.
As technology has become more and more relevant in the classroom, there seems to be a feeling from some "old school" teachers that technology is more about the "bells and whistles" than it is about teaching the actual content. However, as technology in the classroom has grown and (as I like the call it) the LMS war has begun, teachers are starting to find an enormous amount of educational value in the technology. We can now use apps like Socrative and Kahoot to get immediate feedback. We can use an LMS like Schoology or Google Classroom to continually give kids instant feedback as well.
In essence, the technology hasn't changed what we teach, but more changed how we teach. That being said, I think that the technology has begun to drive the curriculum and the need for certain curriculum has driven the invention of certain educational technologies based off of need. Just looking around our school (Buffalo Grove High School) it has become evident that technology and curriculum have driven each other:
- Homebound students now have 24/7 access to curriculum.
- Our Business department has become the CTE (Career Technology Education) department with classes such as Coding and Engineering
I honestly think that the school that we see today is going to look vastly different in 10-15 years. We need to embrace and foster change in order to keep school relevant and give our kids the best opportunities for growth or we are going to find the teaching profession as obsolete as the overhead projector.
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