Week 10 reflection

There are three similarities in the readings that stick out to me. One is each venue, business, P12, and higher education start out with a team. This takes teamwork. One person can not go it alone. The teams are different depending on which venue you look at but all have one. The second similarity I see is the complex process. This is a very envolved, time consuming effort. The planning, designing, and implementation occurs in each venue and is the same process for all three with the only difference being the size of the project. And last is the ever expanding or changing of technology and the needs it creates. I could be wrong, but it seems to me there is a trickle down theory going on here. I am in P-12 education which seems to be the last to get the technology or material that works on said technology. Businesses and the military seem to come up with designs first, then the higher education starts using them, possibaly teaching them, and then high school and finally elementary school begins to receive it. Schools need to at least keep up with what is going on in technology and begin to teach the application of it way before college, but definitly in college. I had a technology class as part of my teaching degree but it mainly taught power point and word. It should have covered educational equipment such as smartboards and covered some of the things we are learning here. That could only enhance our teaching ability and better prepare our students for a future in a technological world.