I chose to investigate the “I adopt
a shared vision of technology infusion appropriate for the educational
environment, work cooperatively with others in decision making, and contribute
to the development of leadership and technology skills in others.” In investigating this NETS-T I researched the
article “teacher development: Fueling
teachers to go high-tech article on the schools that work website. I chose this one because I believe technology
and teachers who use them will be a very valuable commodity in the next two and
a half decades.
The principal Kappy Cannon at
forest lake elementary school in South Carolina was a tech guru for her
elementary school before she became a principal. Once in the roll, she mandated that her
teachers would give up their white boards, and start to incorporate more
technology into the school. Each
morning, students present an in-school broadcast using the new technology. The most telling part of the experience is
that all of the teachers are given the tools they need to advance the
technology agenda. If one teacher is
tackling an a new software in a novel way, they get noticed and present to the
next meeting about what they did.
I feel that this vision of
technology infusion is most critical at the elementary level, so that when
these kids turn into 30 somethings, they can say they have been working with
these technologies for decades and mean it.
