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I am finally sitting down to do my blog. I cannot say that I’m excited. I read Jason, the King of Blog’s entry…then I heard Scott’s idea for an entry and my writer’s block got higher and higher and higher and…well, you get the point.
There was something that Scott said though that has seeded itself in my brain: he said his post was going to focus on the fact that technology doesn’t have to be perfect to be good. Based on that theory alone…a tiny chip of light has made it through my writer’s block for this entry.
I’m not going to make excuses for taking so long to do this. The bottom line in reviewing my week as an academic integrator is that we are extraordinarily busy. Busy is good, but how productive have we been in encouraging people to “Do” for themselves what we do for them. Let me make that a bit clearer.
We planned our awesome inservice training for October 11th. It is so progressive and well designed, it will run itself. The best slogan to come from that planning session is IT’S NOT ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY. There was more to the slogan than that, but if you think about it, that is all you need to say. It isn’t the technology that makes the lesson, it’s the independent learning that takes place because of it. It isn’t the technology that stimulates student interest, it’s what they are DOING with their learning that motivates. It’s not the technology that provokes higher level thinking and collaborative skills, it is the individuals USING it…DOING and SHARING and SHOWING and GROWING what they know with more than just their teacher and classmates.
Technology is not a noun…it’s a verb…an action verb. Just do it.
My goal for next week will be to treat technology as a verb.