A Tale of "Two Teachers" --Teaching and Technology

Teacher 1:
"Walking into a classroom that doesn’t have all that media is like walking into a desert."

"...collect information from other sources, and borrow, and steal, and put it together and reshape it. Isn’t that a skill that I want them to have?"

"I am not saying that cheating is okay. I am saying that cheating is something you have to look at closer to say what is cheating and what’s not cheating?"

Teacher 2:
"Students know how to do things I can’t do technologically in the classroom and I just let them take over and they are naturals."

"I feel at though I am fighting the good fight.  I am trying to hang on to what I think is the most important part of what I do. But, my time is over. This is too much for me. It’s not the educational arena I entered into."

Two teachers dealing with the cultural changes to the educational landscape caused by technology. Which one describes you?

See the video from FrontLine's Digital Nation: Life On The Virtual Frontier --Education In The Digital Age