Is It Ok To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?

I agree with everything that Karl Fisch said in his blog. No wonder he won an award for the most influential blog in 2007. We live in a world of technology and who do we expect to teach us? We expect teachers to teach, of course. What would happen if a teacher whose job it is to teach didn't know what they were doing? In this scenario a student would end up by-passing a student. Mr. Fisch is right in it being embarrassing to be technology illiterate. Imagine being a teacher and your students knowing more than you, the authority in the classroom would go right out the window. Students have to learn technology and it be applied in their learning for the future.

Technology and computers are how everything is starting to work and by the time the students of the class of 2020 graduate everything will be based off technology. If teachers aren't familiar and teaching technology how are students expected to learn it and use it for the future? Teachers who don't know and are unwilling to learn the essentials of technology should be fired. There is no doubt about it in my mind. If you don't fulfill the requirements of the job then you are gone. Not knowing how to us a computer is really like not knowing how to read a few years ago like Fisch said. Being illiterate at anything no matter what it is should be embarrassing. Especially an educator having to say they don't know how to do something, especially something that almost every student knows. Teachers should keep up with the times and teachings before their students by-pass them on learning and they are left behind.