Teaching and Technology During the Covid-19 Shutdowns
Technology has changed significantly over the past few decades in the world of education. My first bachelor's degree was in educational technology in 2012. I have seen classrooms evolve from no technology used at all, to classes now being conducted 100% online, even for K-12 students. Special Education Teachers had to be very literate with computers. Many new devices were being used that helped students either read, decode, see, hear, etc. and most had some sort of computer element to using the device. Our entire database for writing IEPs was in an online database, and it wasn't necessarily user friendly. An IEP could be 20 or more pages long and for the web app to correctly print the documents, each box would have to be checked correctly, entered correctly, or used correctly. Teaching during the Covid-19 shutdowns really showed just how much some schools needed to update their technology. Many schools did not have available devices for students and many had very outdated devic...