Best of The Fischbowl of September

Karl Fisch is the writer of the blog The Fischbowl. His blog entitled, Is It Okay To Be a Technologically Illiterate Teacher? won the Edublog award for 2007. Despite his great humility on the issue, this is a very impressive award and a great achievement for him. In this blog he explores the very question posed in the title of the blog. Does it really matter if a teacher is technologically iliterate? Does this enhance his or her abiltiy to prepare students or does it inhibit it. Karl Fisch definitly seems to say that it greatly inhibits a teachers abiltiy to affectivly prepare his or her students for a successful fufilling life. He even makes the bold statement that being a teacher who is technologically iliterate today is like being a teacher who was reading or writing iliterate 30 years ago.

Fisch gives a good argument as to why we as teachers have an obligation to stay on top of current technology and to provide our students with the tools they need to succeed in their future jobs. I for one totally agree with this argument possed by Fisch. It is our responsibilty as teachers to provide our students with all of the advantages they need to survive in this technologically growing world. This was a well thought out argument and very diserving of and award like this one.