The Presidential Blackberry and Technology in Schools
Published January 24, 2009 by Rick Biche
Ari Shwartz talks with NPR On the Media about technology and the new administration. It seems the White House and government in general have some battles in common with educators when it comes to implementing modern technologies in the workplace as we try to catch up to the rest of the pubic world.
“Everyone in government should be able to use modern technology… we should be able to figure out the policy to work with the technology.”
Everyone in education should be able to use modern technology. This is students, teachers, administrators and support staff. Too often policies are in place that limit the ability of members of each of these groups from utilizing technology to the fullest.
“The biggest potential threat is that we don’t try to figure out how to do this [use technology in government] at this time.”
And so too in the classroom. Putting technology into place effectively involves taking risks, changing practice and moving towards a new vision of learning in our classrooms. Along the way there will be lost days, extra hours, new managment challenges. But there will also be new opportunities for students and teachers, new learning for everyone in the classroom. Without the risk to find and adapt to new ways of learning where will we leave our students and ourselves?
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