One of the first points that was made in the video was that, "teaching with technology is a wicked problem." Upon first hearing this I was a little taken aback. I am in an Instructional Technology class so that I am able to learn how to effectively incorporate technology into my classroom, something that is mandatory in any modern classroom. I didn't understand how such a statement could be valid or even true. However, as the two speakers continued with their somewhat playful presentation I was quickly informed that, "the quality of teaching is the transformation of content or the act of learning in a disciplined manner." Effective teaching has very little to do with curriculum, in fact organized curriculum is a factor in the mess that is education. For some odd reason education and the classroom as a whole, is the breeding ground of controversy. Educators fight over which text books deliver the best material and which literature books explore the world best and which history books are up to date. These problems are only minute.What this means is that simply...education is messy. Educators focus too much on what is being taught, and with what to teach it than how they are teaching. More focus needs to be spent on deliver and the success-fulness of that delivery.
"Education, as a whole, is messy!"
- Pedagogy
- Content
- Technology are messy!
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