Re-examining HTML

I figured my scholars would know more about the technology than they actually do. Sure they laugh at my antique cell phone and at the dinosaur of a computer I have on my desk. I am impressed at how they have mastered certain tools like proxies and their small hand held tools. When it comes to double spacing a document in a word processor or using the right mouse feature on a Mac, I am stunned at their ineptitude. They don't seem to know their way around the useful tools of a computer and I have been discovering each day is filled with epiphanies about the better use of the computer technology in our classroom.


The problem seems to be that we still spend so much time teaching them in a linear way about the technology. I heard a radio commercial this morning involving a woman probably about my age exclaiming in spite of her inability to use any technology she has finally embraced online banking. We still celebrate our technology ineptitude with a laugh.

So as we begin a new school year with those rousing speeches from our administration, those first gatherings in the computer rooms to establish or re-establish our email link to the BOE system, login to our attendance and grade keeping tool, and to reacquaint ourselves with these silicon tools; I am reminded about how much we, like our young scholars, lose over the summer. Lots of time is resetting forgotten passwords and even login names. I guess it is a good thing that we come back two days before the scholars so we can use that preseason time as the athletes do to get the kinks out and to reestablish our footing in the classroom.



I think I will have to go back to HTML. One step at a time.