By Wili Liberman
A recent conversation with a teacher was illuminating. I was trying to explain how to log on to one of TEACH Magazine’s digital resources and I realized that this teacher expected the process to be far more complicated. When I explained it was really rather simple, she said that teachers are afraid of technology and it was a natural instinct to assume that technology was complicated and would, inevitably, at some point, screw up.
This raises the question as to whether teachers are techno-phobic. Based on a single conversation, of course, it is impossible to generalize. Still, it confirmed a feeling that I’ve had for a while based on the queries we’ve fielded concerning our digital resources focusing on very rudimentary questions about signing up and logging in. The most basic of processes, in other words.
Wili Liberman is the current and founding editor and publisher of TEACH Mag. He is also the co-producer of the teen travel show Get Outta Town! and has written a series of fictionalized teen adventure books based on the show. He writes graphic novels as well, including The Shadowed Road, Ezra and the Lion Cub, and The Ruptured Sky, along with adult fiction. Wili currently lives in Toronto, Canada, and is married with three adult sons.
