ch of what I have been feeling, but have been unable to articulate. This wi=
ll be a great conversation starter for our school
~Jayme
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Jayme Johnson
Director of Academic Technology
Village School
780 Swarthmore Avenue
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310.459.8411 ext 120
www.village-school.org <http://www.village-school.org/>
On 11/3/10 8:03 AM, "Curt Lieneck" <clienec@ucls.uchicago.edu> wrote:
Interesting discussion of standards for using technology.
I side with Joel in this debate. There are only a few things I ask of
teachers to help make technology work well for them and their students:
1) Look at your use of technology from the students' standpoint as
much as your own.
2) Understand that using technology well means investing time that can
be hard to come by.
3) Understand that there are practical limits to my ability to
support your individual preferences. I have to work with absolutely
everyone in the school, and so will see your requests in a much
different context than you will. But if you give me a sound
educational reason for doing so, I will support as broad a set of
tools as my staff and I can reasonably manage.
4) Choices you make about using or not using technology in your
teaching should be informed choices accompanied by a cogent rationale,
just as you would do for other curricular decisions you make. I will
ask about that rationale when you ask me for funding, and I will ask
for that rationale when you don't.
If the school were to start compelling curricular technology use, the
conversation would shift away from students, where it always needs to
be, and devolve into an argument about which adults know more about
what students need. Students always lose when adults square off on
such things.
Curt Lieneck
Director of Information Technology
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
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