Too often in early childhood education, we assume technology is "bad" because we default to the child as the user/consumer and fail to consider the tech skills of the educator. In our community college program, our discipline-specific standards for accreditation now include stringent incorporation of technology skills for our learners. Many "millennials" come knowledgeable about Tic-Tok and Facebook but cannot open and save a document on a desktop computer. I'm learning that "keyboarding" and "computer classes" are no longer included in many of our state's high school programs; students access materials for class via iPads and their personal phones. Given that the majority of business--including education--still use traditional desktop units, this lack of instruction in secondary and postsecondary curricula needs to be revised!
