Technology and Overwhelm?
In listening to everyone at the last committee meeting, I think we do have a strike a balance between our excitement about future (and present) technologies and overwhelm.
This article in Technology and Learning is a good example–http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193200296
It provides a lot of ideas and a vision for what a technology-transformed campus could be like, but reading it seems overwhelming even to me!
How do we find that balance?
On another note, I was excited that our plan to bring something out of this committee to reality–our mini-workshops for teachers–is already happening!
We had our first one yesterday. I do think “mini” approaches may be a good way to gradually bring in some of these technology tools to our teachers, so maybe that is one way to avoid overwhelm? (I really didn’t plan to answer my own question–that just occurred to me as I was writing this!)
What are other ways we can help keep that overwhelm balanced as we move to a more technology rich classroom?
