During our last class it was interesting to see different students' presentations. Throughout the presentations I noticed two things: 1) Teachers do not know enough technology and 2) increasing communication between teachers and students via e-mail and text.

Throughout the presentations one of the students mentioned how research was showing teachers themselves do not know enough techonology. There are many interesting activities out there that support learning for today's students but not enough teachers would know how to set up all the technology involved in carrying out these activities. Not only this, but teachers would also have trouble finding a spot in curriculum to implement technology. This is something that bothers me when I think about my own teaching but it may just be a matter of letting the older, more traditional teachers retire. Soon enough we'll have a brand new generation of tech savvy instructors.

It is rather unacceptable for students to communicate with teachers via telephone. This type of communication is usually seen with students that are college/university level. Furthermore, there are still teachers today that can not upload an attachment to an e-mail to send work home for a sick student! I had a situation recently where one of my students was ill for over a week and I sent work to her mother's work e-mail and the student was able to come to class without falling behind. Had it not been for the parent and myself communicating via e-mail, the student would not have been caught up.

Our students' presentations included many great activities but without teachers learning the proper technology necessary, they are useless.