Chapther 5 new education system

• How does this reading impact your thinking about technology's role in teaching and learning?

   Before reading this section i thought that home schooling was only for strongly religious people. A girl i had a date with  referred to all socially inept people as "home schooled". One of my best friends was home schooled until his sophomore year in high school, when i first met him in school my friends and i would abuse that poor kid, but now were thick as thieves and he is in his 3rd year of university. I see now that home schooling takes all kinds. i am glad to see that technology has improved for these students, but i don't care for the insinuation that live teachers aren't as needed.
   Using technology to learn a job is something i am familiar with. I have had a couple jobs as a hotel clerk and the training CD-Roms board me to death and i didn't learn much. it was required that i sit through them but once u work at one hotel the operating systems aren't that different. i could see how they were helpful to some and that the information they contained was not taught in high school.
   I am a PBS fan, i love the Muppet's and many other "educational" programing, but it is to passive for the watcher to learn new subjects and i think a kid could get more from 10 min of one on one reading than a hour of the "electric company". TV is still the opiate of the masses.
  
   

• What will you do differently as a future teacher as a direct result of this new thinking?

After high school i remembered how we learned about photosynthesis, but i couldn't tell you what ATP was. My science teachers gave me the tools to be a life long learner. I wont just teach facts to my students. facts are great and people are full of interesting ones, but the method for understanding is the most important part, "teach someone to fish " sort of scenario. critical thinking skills can be applied to a students life out side of class and will help them be those life long learners who know how to take advantage of the resources available to them as an adult.