I frequently hear how these millennial teachers are not coming in ready to integrate technology. However, they are coming in with a different sense of their information environment, one that knows very little boundary. And now, she’s facing a job of teaching inside the hard walls of a classroom, the covers of a textbook, and no conduit to the world of information that is home to her and many of her students.
If I said, “Welcome to the real world.” She’d reply, “Yeah! Welcome to the old world.”
After this experience, when she is interviewing for jobs, and the principal asks, do you have any questions? What is she going to ask for in her teaching environment?
What is her prospective principal going to need to be able to say, in a state that is suffering a near devastating teacher shortage?
