Last week ended with parent teacher conferences. We spoke about how each student has grown and improved over the last marking period. We also spoke about our hopes and concerns for the remainder of the school year. Fast forward a few days and I am now sitting in a large room at teh Huntington Hilton waiting for the conference to officially begin. They keynote speaker this year is Leslie Fisher. When I attended two years ago, Rushton Hurley was the speaker, and he was excellent. I expect that she will be just as inpiring.
The vision of Educational Technology is focused and optimistic, but in these tough economic times they will be scrutinized. Technology hardware is always impressive, but it is gathering dust it shows its true importance. By the same token, technology much be used to create learning opportunities that might not be possioble otherwise. As a professor told me many years ago; "What an exciting time to be a teacher!" If you watch the news, you see talk of laying off teachers and cutting services. Technology will be a tough sale if those events come to fruition.
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