Get with the Times...Top ten reasons to use technology in the classroom

Why are some teachers fighting the trend towards the the use of technology in the classroom. The quote at the beginning of this video makes so much sense when you think about our every changing technological world.

After watching the video check out these reasons which seem to put everything in perspective.

10. They are cool. Kids like cool stuff and it makes those who may not have wanted to pay attention, pay attention. (At least for the beginning)
9. They are tools of the "presentation" trade outside of school, and school prepares kids to be members of the community outside school.
8. They allow kids to be visually stimulated in ways that photos and posters and diagrams on the board do not.
7. They are similar to the entertainment that kids love and may usher them into learning that feels fun.
6. Fun is not the enemy of a good education.
5. They are easier to digest for some auditory and visual learners than lecture or even hands-on opportunities.
4. For the teachers that produce them and/or creatively use them, these tools keep the teachers learning new and valuable skills.
3. The sheer newness of them can breathe life into a curriculum that was languishing in its repetitiveness of delivery. (This is the way we did it last year...and five years ago...maybe even ten years ago.)
2. They are a great tool (just a tool, not a panacea)one of many that good educators use to reach kids.
1. They help keep this off your program's "tombstone:" "We've never done it that way before."