techvision

=Technology Vision=

====For me, technology is a tool to help us do what we already do, but to do it better. In the classroom, technology should connect students with information more quickly and engage students on multiple levels so that they can learn and create and discover more than would have been possible without technology. In our everyday lives, technology is a tool to help us get done with our work more quickly so we have more time to grow our relationships and enjoy the world around us. In the workplace, technology is a means for communicating more and wasting time less. Technology is meant to improve the world around us; it is the means to the end of enhancing our lives.====

====Specifically, I believe in an open internet where information is shared so that the most people can benefit from it. I believe in respecting intellectual property both as a way for people to make a living and as a way to give credit where credit is due. I believe in using technology in the workplace and the classroom in ways that replicate the demands of the world around us and the world that we will be living in soon. I believe in utilizing the affinities of communication and productivity technologies to streamline workloads to make room for more creativity, but believe that it should not be taking the thinking out of the process.====

====I believe that technology is part of the toolkit of teachers and students with the ultimate aim of learning, and that it should be utilized only when it is the best way to reach that goal and never for its own sake. I believe in directly teaching digital responsibility and safety alongside the infinite possibilities of digital publishing and community problem solving.====

====I know that the way that I understand technology is not the same as the ways that my parents relate to it, and that the world our students are growing up in looks nothing like how I understood the world as an adolescent. And I know that for the rest of time this will be the case. So, I believe it is my job to pay attention to what the world looks like through the eyes of my students so that they know that I am preparing them for the real world.==== media type="file" key="Pay Attention.flv" width="360" height="270" align="center"