I agree, I agree, I agree. And yet, I’ve seen a number of educators that need to get over the (often fearful as much as technological) hump of understanding how to use the technology, before they can see the value and be brave enough to try it with students. This may not be our mindset, but still it exists, and while there is never enough money in public education, I do think that it is sad that when a business adopts a new technology, they’ll spend a significant percentage of their resources in training, but in education almost all the money goes into the technology itself. This model only helps to perpetuate the focus on the technology and not what it can do for us… meanwhile, the goal is to make the technology ‘invisible’ and used for learning purposes, not as shiny new product producers.
The Wrong Focus
Will Richardson
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