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I’ve been looking forward to today for a long time. Patti Chapel, the school’s technology coordinator (or related title) has been attending the North Carolina Educational Technology Conference for many years, and has been attending my workshops and presentations just about each of those years. So it will be an honor to work at her school, about which I have heard so many great things. These will be really good teachers who teach really smart students.
My job is to convince the educators here to make use of technology. That, of course, will not be my message. It will be about the information. The very nature of information has changed dramatically in just the last decade — and the rate of change is accelerating. The fact is that the information experience that MWGS students enjoy at home is about as advanced, as compared to their classroom experience, as if the printing press were to be compared to Cro-Magnon cave drawings. Information is increasingly digital, networked, and overwhelming, not to mention the even more interesting characteristics of Web 2.0.
So my message will be to make as much use of the new information landscape as possible. The technology will come along, but not because we are convinced that students will learn better, but that computers and the Internet are the paper and pencil of our time.
Presentations will include:
