The Qatar Academy Student Blog

We have many teachers. Really, we have a lot of teachers. But the question remains, are we good enough? Are our teachers prepared enough to face what this century requires? I say yes. Most of our teachers have vast understanding of how to incorporate what is really technology, they use all possible means to convert whatever they can into a technologically advanced masterpiece. So in essence, we have the right level of educators; and for that matter students. We have adequate resources when it comes to hardware (I used adequate cause most of our hardware is loaded with Windows. I say Mac). But the true problem comes in software. Now the problem is divided into two halves:

• We are not buying enough stuff (I will talk about this later). We need more software, and at least we need to update the software we have. We have Flash, great. But we have flash MX 2004, which is old OLD.
• We are not being taught how to use the stuff we have. We have Premiere, we have Photoshop! We have.. We have.. GREAT! But students are not being taught. Now I may know how to use Premiere, but most people don’t. I am not talking about IB grads. I am talking about younger students, why dosen’t a sixth grader get the right to make a picture perfect movie (without iMovie)? Many sixth graders are capable of doing that better than some IB’s, why not give them the chance? It is not the IT department’s fault (we get too little lessons for anything). Who’s fault is is?

So you give us great set ups, now teach us how to use them??!