Teaching in a modern world.

Today there is so much more to teaching than there used to be. There is more information to learn and we are offering that information to the kids at younger and younger ages. I know when my parents went to high school they learned algebra their senior year, and as for me I was taught algebra in the 7th grade. That right there in a span of roughly 30 years education increased the level of math offered and upped the requirement for kids. The new level of difficulty isn't the only change though for teachers. Now there is so much technology available to the everyday person that teachers need to be able to equip their students for our technology driven world. Thankfully a lot of this technology is helpful to teachers, the only problem? Teachers have to teach themselves on how to use it. Every year there is something new that teachers need to better understand in order to utilize it in their classroom, and so many teachers just don't want to have to change all their lessons to incorporate one new piece of technology. I understand this, and can respect teacher that like to go old school. At the same time though, there are many new teachers coming into the field that already know much of this technology and have been taught to utilize it in their class. This is a good thing, teachers are coming into the field expecting that their role will look different every year, expecting change. We want to prepare our children for the future, and much of that is giving them all the resources they could possibly need. Among those resources includes new and advanced technology, so as teachers we need to be prepared . We have to take it amongst ourselves to always continue learning, otherwise every new generation that walks into our classroom won't advance. Isn't that our goal as teachers? To help better prepare the future of our world, to have them better, smarter and solve more problems than we every could? How can we do that if aren't giving them the best that this world has to offer?