Technology for Learning - A Moral Imperative?
On Friday I had the honor of sharing my thinking with some middle school teachers about the future, the role of technology, some current education technology practices, and new possibilities. Actually, I didn’t quite make it to the new possibilities piece as we needed to move into the workshop stage. There was some great dialogue during my presentation. I asked the participants to respond to some “big questions” and that opened up all sorts of conversations. One table group was lamenting how difficult it is to embed the use of technology into teaching and learning when there isn’t equitable access to good technology for students and teachers. It varies significantly across schools. One teacher shared a story of how her son (in elementary school) created a “ glog ” (at home) to represent his learning and then when he tried to share it with his teacher and classmates, it failed due to the state of technology and the network for his school. The co...