I was just reading a blog by Maria, a fellow student where she mentions that she has heard and read a lot about EndNote. I was talking to our school tech and he was also explaining to me all about the benefits of EndNote, and a tech he cannot understand why it is not used by our state education department.
I then wondered about what we bring to our students, if diplomats can keep us from advancing forward because perhaps they don’t fully understand all the benefits of technology, are we at risk of doing the same thing to our students? I think that through the processes of this course that were engaging in, I have been able to look deeper into the things that I probably haven’t fully understood in the past and not even looked into due to that fact. It goes back to that mentality that we won’t even look at things that we don’t think we will understand, regardless of being told of its benefits. Imagine if we all looked further into the benefits of things that are ”too hard” the things we would find.