As a beginning teacher, it will be even more important to be a savvy technology user while promoting safety and creating a digital footprint that is appropriate. In class, learning about different technologies that are available to everyone in order to back-up important information is hugely important to me as a future teacher. Because almost EVERYTHING a teacher uses is on technology. Lesson plans are often created on computers and saved. However, in class learning that "saving a document" is not the end all it will be very beneficial to set a back up device up because as the quote says, "it is not if technology will fail but when." This will also be an important aspect to teach to students as much of their work will be on technology. In order to avoid completing a project twice storing a back up file in some way will be very beneficial to both students and teachers.
Another aspect that will help me as a teacher is learning more effective ways to conduct research. When I am looking for resources to aid a lesson, I will have to be a competent explorer or the internet to save myself A LOT of time weeding through search hits that are useless because I did not add or eliminate certain words out of my search query. This will also be helpful for students to know because most papers, especially in the high school and post secondary level require a certain amount of research. In order to save time and make sure the sources used are applicable and authentic, students will have to learn how to search effectively on a range of different search databases.
Technology is becoming the future of education. Technology is being incorporated into all grades and because of this both teachers and students know how to use technology effectively and efficiently to produce the best results.
One question I have is: I am not an expert on technology and students will more often then not know more about technology than I will. How can I as a teacher make sure I am guiding a student in the right direction if I know nothing about the technology? Just a question to ponder!