Technology: A Platform for Behavior

This was an interesting week in 276R. There was a big transformation in the teaching that went on by the students. Before we were sitting through many presentations. But today we were taught something. One lesson stands out above all the others which was taught by Jeff Cook. His personality really enhanced teaching. Ethical behavior and teaching psychology and ways of thinking are still responsibilities of teachers and in technology we have the best platform by which proper behavior can be taught. Certainly with the erosion of morals and ethics in our modern world, students are very unlikely to receive proper direction and molding for behavior and thinking that is right, save it be from good parents in the home, and from religious activity. Our current environment is complex one. We are scared by the caution to not mix religion in our classrooms. It scares us into thinking we can't teach morals and ethics. Life lessons aren't religion-specific behaviors. TRUE it is more difficult to draw a line where you aren't mentioning god, but we can still mention good. Every person born on this earth is given the Light of Christ, which guides us to remember and recognize that which is good and that which is wrong. A problem arises when individuals are never taught these lessons, and later in life when faced with ethical decisions, there is no reservoir from which former students can draw. Let us not forget, as teachers, the obligation we have to teach.