On Friday I had the honor of sharing my thinking with some
middle school teachers about the future, the role of technology,
some current education technology practices, and new
possibilities. Actually, I didn’t quite make it to the new
possibilities piece as we needed to move into the workshop
stage. There was some great dialogue during my presentation. I
asked the participants to respond to some “big questions” and
that opened up all sorts of conversations. One table group was
lamenting how difficult it is to embed the use of technology
into teaching and learning when there isn’t equitable access to
good technology for students and teachers. It varies
significantly across schools. One teacher shared a story of how
her son (in elementary school) created a “glog” (at home) to
represent his learning and then when he tried to share it with
his teacher and classmates, it failed due to the state of
technology and the network for his school. The consumer side of
technology seems to far out-strip schools and Distric