Document Type
Issue Area Four
Abstract
I must confess up-front that due to my unusual job assignment, my views on technology and the changes it will cause in the role of teachers come from the front-lines since I am an educator. As a vocational child care instructor for Iowa Western Community College in the secondary program during a day's work I might be in and out of a daycare, an early childhood, a primary, an intermediate, or my own high school classroom. There's also my role as staff development coordinator for the college staff. And, if that's not enough, I have a spouse who is being trained in the latest technology available in the retail sales of computers. I'm really feeling the impact of technology from multiple points of view.
To prepare this paper, I gathered thoughts from some of my more futuristic colleagues. The comment I heard most often from them was that technology will definitely change the way we teach and the way students learn. It's going to provide more enhanced learning opportunities for students. As teachers, we no longer will be the soul deliverers of knowledge, but rather the facilitators of the learning process. As I read articles on technology, I found the experts saying the same thing. "Teachers are still responsible for students' learning, but rather than being dispensers of information they become guides to the learning process" (Van Dusen, 1995, p. 32).
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
6
Issue
1
First Page
110
Last Page
112
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1996 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Kossow, Jo
(1996)
"Student-Directed Classrooms Change Teachers' Role,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 6:
No.
1, Article 33.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol6/iss1/33
