This is my first of many posts many of which will be about media technology and the like for teaching and many other topics highly worthy of discussion. I think that the reality of the situation requires a syncretic blend of media use in teaching. The avenues of which we can go with technology and teaching are ones that can be beneficial if used with careful consideration and great limitations. We have schools and institutes that either allow it and ones that don't. there are always two sides to any coin and as such I feel like people like to play heads or tails when they forget that regardless of what side you land on the object you hold at the very end is still a coin. it's still something that holds value regardless of the hand it's in. it's just that the conceptual coin is named technology in school and the sides are for and against. I remember back in the day we would have computer lab classes where they'd teach us how to use programs like Microsoft word and any of the other Microsoft based programs with the purpose of teaching it's students how to use a program that was believed to be important for our school careers in the future. needless to say that they were right and while some students did get distracted here and there the teacher did their job and got the class right back on track. in closing or as I like to say the punchline here is that I think teaching with media CAN be done however it's up to the people who enforce it to make sure that it's implemented properly.
