THE SCHOOL FOR THEIR FUTURE, OR FOR OUR PAST?
Mari Petrelius is an educational technologist and biology teacher who is very concern about the worries teachers have regarding the use of technology in class. She is sure that somehow society makes us believe that everything was better at old times and maybe teachers are afraid of changes and worried about their possible mistakes and lacks in this field. We teachers are continuously asked to implement new technologies in our lessons, to integrate their use in the curriculum but, hang one, what are new technologies? Or even better, new technologies for whom? Technology is technology only for those born before technology. Would we consider flushing a toilet technology? It may have been technology at a time, but is not consider so any more. The same happens with the use of tablets or social network. Most of our students were born after the invention of these ‘new technologies'. So they use them as natural tools for their development, their communication and, in the end, for their...
