Reflection #10

For my final lesson in Instructional Design I created a PowerPoint. I was teaching on the United Nations and had video clips, pictures and statistics that helped spice up my "lecture" type lesson. But the PowerPoint had ideas of its own, it decided to just stop working. So I took a deep breath, knew I was prepared and went on with my lesson until the system rebooted. This was a good lesson for me to learn: that I need to understand and know my material well enough that if technology were to fail me, I would make it through. I have discussed the over dependence on technology in the History classroom on multiple occasions but I am again reminded that if you (as the teacher) are passionate about your subject, students will feel that passion. And maybe not all students will want to study history for the rest of their lives after taking your class, but they will understand that passions drive people to what they want to become and without passion or knowledge, technology can be seen as just a crutch.