20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have

Submitted by pfaffman on Thu, 2005-08-25 12:08. :: News | Ideas

The Journal has a list of 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have. It's not a bad list, except I'd say "course management system skills" rather than listing WebCT and Blackboard. If you've read anything here, you know that I'm a fan of Moodle and think it irresponsible to teach teachers to use expensive proprietary tools when there are Open Source Software alternatives that, in the case of Moodle, are easier to use.

It also talks about the "Deep Web." I ain't never heard of the deep web. It seems to be accessing database-based stuff via the web. It's not clear to me that this is fundamentally different from just using the web, at least if the databases are well-designed.

I also take issue with the notion that people need to know how to design web pages. I think that blogging software proves that Normal People don't want to learn about designing web sites and don't need to.


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Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2005-09-01 23:02.

We picked up on the list as well, and I totally agree that they should not have used "webct or blackboard" vs. "course management tools" or however you might describe these. I'd say the list would have been good 5 years ago maybe ... we've come a LONG way since then.

We (edtechposse) actually picked this up on one of our podcasts a little while ago. If you are interested:
http://edtechposse.ca/?q=podcast_3_-_on_essential_skills_and_the_making_of_lists

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