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Today I was looking through the Fischbowl and i found an interesting article called Is it okay to be a technologically illiterate teacher ?. It was about how everyone, especially educators, should have basic level of technology capability. What mattered to me was what basic things people should know. I don't think everyone should have to know how to use a cell phone or a computer to live a normal life and neither should teachers. I mean would you rather have a Spanish teacher who is very good at the language and can't use a computer, or one who's alright at Spanish but can do anything on computer. Though I definitely can say my english teacher knows her stuff about technology, I mean we use laptops every day in that class and she taught us everything we needed to know about blogger or Google and so on. The post also referenced another post by Terry Freedman dealing with the subject and part of it said:

...and we don't have the moral right to sit placidly on the sidelines when some educators are potentially jeopardizing the chances of our youngsters.

I would definitely have to disagree with this because I know more about technology than half the adults I know and the educators wouldn't be jeopardizing our chances because as long as they're teaching us math or history or whatever it might be we should be fine. This relates to the world because I know a bunch of people who are technologically illiterate and all of them are adults but I can't name one kid I know who doesn't know how to use modern technology. I know a lot about technology and if there's is something new then it really doesn't take me that long to figure it out, so I really don't think it's that big of a deal unless it's your profession or something.