Chapter 5- Sandholtz

    Chater five talks about redefining teacher and student roles in using technology. Traditionally, teacher knows a lot of the curriculum and class management, but in today's world, teachers feel discomfort about knowing little more than their students about technology. In this chapter, the author mentions that teachers started to have some students work on different software so that they can be the experts to help other students when they have trouble. Peer turoring is another key idea in this chapter, have students to teach each other about different technology, instead of sitting there quietly, students become more active. This suddent increase the interaction between students and also, in some cases, teachers found out that if they teach one or two students how to do something on comupter, then they don't need to worry about spend a lot of time to help other students because they will just learn from their peer. Also, the author talks about the unanticipate benefits by peer tutoring. Peer tutoring makes student who is less value blossom, unpopular students gain approval...etc. At the end of this chapter, the author discusses about the new two dimensions about the role of student experts. First, student starts to share their expertise with people other than the ACOT classroom, second, teacher allows student to teach one another subject matter content in addition to technological information.
    I think in this 21st century, as a teacher, we need to think about our role when we are teaching with technology. Obviously, our students sometime spend more time than us to learn new technologies. As a teacher, we have too many thing we need to deal with every day. So, it is hard for us to learn every single new technology. I think the idea about having a couple students to be the experts of different technology tools is good because they can be our assistants when we are teaching. At the same time we can still focus on the content area we are trying to teach in the classroom. It does save a lot of our time to solve some technological problem may occur during the class.