Wili Liberman

By Wili Liberman Recently, teachers in Alberta have made headlines as they push for better pay and working conditions. Striking is their legal right—a right that allows them to stand up for fair treatment and the resources they need to do their jobs well. As the publisher of an educational publication, we often hear directly from teachers about the challenges they face. It’s not an easy profession.

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.