Blog #6 (Final Blog)

For years teachers have been able to teach the same way, and still get the same results. In this day and age, however, times have changed and so have the students. Students are unable to react in the same manner to the teaching that our educators are providing. Students need their skills to be something to be used in the immediate future. They have learned this from using the computer and the internet. Most students go home and dive into the internet. The skills they learn about the computer and the internet are the skills that are most needed. So the question becomes whether or not teachers are prepared to teach in a 21st century classroom where students no longer respond to traditional teaching styles.

  I predict that the findings will find that most teachers do not feel prepared to teach in the 21st century classroom. I also think that even though the ongoing trend is for the current students to become their own “learner producers”, that teachers will have to become this as well, in order to, keep up with the students and their learning. However, this will have to be proved with further studies. With these findings, I believe many teacher preparation programs will change the curriculum for their program. As well. I believe that school systems will start enforcing the learning of technological skills with their teachers instead of students only. The implications of this study will make way for many new curriculums in learning to become a teacher in teacher preparation programs. It could also change the requirements that schools have for hiring teachers, perhaps specifically requiring teachers to know how to use technology in the classroom appropriately, in a way that students are able to both learn the subject of the course and how to use technology in the 21st century.