I am an English major, and plan to teach English to people who are not much younger than the age I am at currently. In an existential sense that's terrifying to me because I have no worldly idea how i would teach myself currently, let alone another individual (or rather group of individuals) who are more than likely going to be more intelligent than I. However, i believe that my future students and I will have more in common than my previous teachers and I had in common. One of my fonder memories from high school was the cumulative hours I and my fellow classmates spent sitting and smirking at my tired, has-had-enough-of-everyone-and-everything teacher fumble their way through Google Drive or God forbid, a DVD player. Every year, nearly without fail, there would be a moment in one of my classes that entire lesson plans would need to be altered for little more reasoning than "technology is too hard". During our rotating chair discussion on Monday, one of the questions proposed was what the value of an electronic portfolio is over traditional transcripts, and that interested me given my past experience.
I consider myself proficient in technology. I use the entirety of the Google Suite on a regular basis, but some of the technological knowledge i have doesn't benefit me or my teaching capabilities. I can code in Python, HTML, Java, and Ruby on Rails to an okay degree, however, knowing things like this will not help me in the workplace that i plan to be in. My point of this whole tirade is that while technology is becoming important in the education field, the level in which i'm able to provide the workplace is either non-important or frivolous. So besides a notation on my resume, i don't feel like my abilities could be used to their fullest extent.
I plan to teach English though so I don't know what I'm complaining about. I just hope I can get a job.
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