New Roles for Secure, Caring Teachers

If you are one of those teachers who fears being replaced by a computer, your worst fears may come true!  Iconoclastic teachers who object to and resist using teaching technology as a matter of principle are seen more and more as pitifully anachronistic.  How do such teachers even justify the radical innovation of pen and paper?  After all, the Celtic shamans, the "dru vid", forbade writing, in part to ensure that all knowledge be entirely based on memory and reserved for the elite, themselves.

But the wise teacher already takes for granted the indispensable role human teachers will always play in the learning process.  If you are secure in your own worth and usefulness as a teacher, you will feel no need to fear the computer's role in learning.  Some of us have lived long enough to have experienced this same "fear of new technology" with each innovation, from opaque projectors to radio, film, film-strip, overhead projectors, slide projectors, tape recorders, television, language laboratories, and now computers!  Our fears proved groundless and foolish.  Quality teaching and effective learning still thrive.  Enough said.

If you are a teacher who earnestly; passionately seeks to help your students experience the joy and delight of learning and knowing, then you are a caring teacher, and you are an essential part of the educational process, which no technology will ever displace.  With interactive online tutorials (using images, sound, and text) you will be able to increase your teaching effectiveness and improve your teaching performance just as older " new technologies" have helped those of us with gray hair for generations.

© 1994, Joseph L. Scott, Ph.D., Germanic Languages & Literatures: josephlscott@hotmail.com

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