From the Principal

From the Principal

Bonjour à tous, and Wanju

Living on the Future Edge - PART II

“Technology changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you leave school”

Gordon Moore, one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, cofounder and chief research scientist of Intel Corporation, proposed,

“every 24 months, technology will be twice as powerful at half the cost”

This may be a lot to take in but the point is that technology and the rapidly increasing capacity of it; is a new paradigm.  Prensky refers to most people of my generation as “Digital Immigrants” as we can recall times before a mobile phone, the internet, fax machines (fax machines have come and gone!). 

Given this exponential technological trend, we have to think about how it impacts what we do in the school.  What are the skills that our students will need?  Are we equipping them? Are we relevant? We need to prepare our students for a world that will be technologically so different to the one we live in now.

Although we have a BYOD program at the school, it is sometimes difficult to administer.  Integrating technology into our lessons requires us to know the range of uses. How can we power-up the learning with the technology and simultaneously increase our students’ ability to apply technology? That is our challenge.  There is professional learning for us also to keep our practice, current and relevant.  As educators we must lead the way by moving into this new paradigm. Something that is much easier said than done along with everything else we are trying to keep up to date.  But still – we try; and look for opportunities to develop the necessary knowledge to teach poor students.

En Avant