"We are all learners. We are all teachers."

As time continues to change before our very own eyes, technology is advancing rapidly. While technology changes students are keeping up with the changes while teachers only seem to be falling father behind. In order to be more effective as a teacher, we need to try to stay at the same pace with technology as it changes. Many students have commented on how their teachers “are old school”. Teachers do not include more technology in the classroom due to their fear of “looking stupid” as their students will actually know something that the teacher does not understand. According to the article, How to teach with technology: keeping both teachers and students comfortable in an era of exponential change, by Marc Prensky, teachers should embrace technology, and even ask their students for help on how the particular technology works. The teacher is still able to show how the technology can be applied to what they are learning. Prensky states that, “. . . if we don’t teach these kids to use these technologies responsibly, they will just use them to beat us” (pg 44). He also mentions how it is the job of the teacher to help “teach responsibility and the responsible use of tools” (pg 45).