The Teaching Generation Gap

This article reminded me so much of my school right now.  In March, a small group of us attended the MACUL conference in Grand Rapids.  We came back fully excited to start using the tools we discovered, and we also made it a mission to start some hybrid classes next year.  The resistance we met from our fellow teachers was amazing.  We literally had some teachers accuse us of trying to break up the union and outsource jobs by using technology!  WHAT???   I'm not kidding you!  The author of this article discusses a conference she attended and tweeted and blogged; she was part of a small number of attendees who had already met online and through blogs and tweets.  She was part of a global community.

She mentioned that we often talk about the gaps experienced by our students in education:  gaps of money, gaps of knowledge, gaps of parental involvement.  What do we do to solve the gaps of the teachers?  Some of us...including most of us in this program...think a different way than do many of our colleagues.  What can we do to bridge the gap? 

The author offered no solutions, but she sure got me thinking!