Hi there, by the way. My name is Rami Bdeir and I am a madman. STOP! Before you scoot that little cursor over to the back button in hopes to salvage any sanity you may have expended here, let me explain. If you looked at my name and the language center of your brain slightly imploded, don't worry, it is a natural reaction to seeing those letters arranged like that. I am originally from a tiny country in the Middle East, one of the ones that hasn't been relevant since the '90s, called Kuwait. I came to stay in the U.S. when I was quite young, something about a war or some such, and have lived in North East Texas since I was a child.
Ahh, childhood memories.
After getting over my initial disappointment at the lack of cowboys and gunfights I realized that I LOVED going to school here. School was this magical land where knowledge flowed from a fount of plenty that was watched over by these angelic beings called teachers. MAN, I wanted to be one of them!
I was determined to become an educator, and in the true sense of the American Dream, I strove with the loving support of my family to attend University and count myself among the great scholars. Of course then reality happened, and I was left alone and abandoned by my family at 16 and suddenly becoming a teacher seemed just that, a dream.
Put away your tissues, and NO I will not sell my story to you, Lifetime Channel! I strove onward and finished Highschool and slowly started to earn my own way into college. Who helped me with this impossible task? TEACHERS! Those saintly arbiters of success and willpower drove me onward!
My 9th Grade Fine Arts Teacher
And now, here I am using a blog to communicate my hopes and dreams to the world! There were those who called me mad, who said that my dreams were unobtainable. But I stand...er, sit here and boldly go into the great expanse of future educational techniques. Also, possibly, because this is an assignment for "Intergrating Technology into Curriculum". You can laugh at that last part, but also realize that I, and possibly you, am standing on the edge of the evolution of education. Not only am I going to be a teacher, but in this class I am going to obtain the (l337) skills to instruct future generations of mankind, using the immensely expanding field of technology.
This may not be exactly what my assignment outlined, but I do believe that future educators need to resonate on the same frequency of their students. Becoming immersed in the same Internet culture and communications that they utilize is paramount to the passing of important lessons from one generation to the next. Even if it's literature... It's not classic if it can't communicate.
