Bad Teachers and Technology

Last week we had a discussion on Blackboard about the article "When Good Technology Means Bad Teaching," which was presented to us by Emily Feldstein. The article described the experiences of college students who had professors teaching their classes badly because of technology. Problems stemmed from not being familiar with the technology to when computers crashed to not using the technology to make class more interesting. Aside from our own class experiences, a lot of people talked about the lack of teacher training or the lack of compensation to do teacher training in the new technology and in being teachers in general. With parents and teachers both behind on technology, will there ever be a balance? So far, things look a little bleak for that prospect.