Learning Educational Technologies

I read the article entitled “Turning the Tables: Students Teach Teachers” (http://www.edutopia.org/genyes) on the Edutopia website. This article is about a program developed by Dennis Harper to help digitally native or efficient students with teachers and student teachers.  The group of students has been named “Generation www.Y”.  The students work with their paired teacher and help them use different technologies, how to use them in the classroom, and even help them create lessons based around technology.

I thought this article was very interesting. The program is not just about the students helping the teachers understand technology. It is about the students actually have a hand in planning certain engaging lessons and how teachers can follow in their footsteps.  They are truly teaching the teachers in depth concepts and are figuring out how to do what the teacher does with certain technologies before they present the material. This is very inspiring that students, fourth through twelveth grade have taken the initiative to help with this cause.