Wow! What a plan and the vision is that it will be complete by 2020. I don't know if I share that vision. When reading the purpose of the plan, I do believe in what it wants to accomplish. I just don't believe we are going to accomplish it. For one reason, I don't think we will be able to fund it. I work in one of the largest districts in Texas. We are making so many budget cuts. How will they be able to pay for all the new required technology. Another reason I don't believe we will accomplish the vision is because we are working toward a vision that will no longer be important in a few years. The reason it won't be important is because we will need to make a new vision to keep up with the quickly changing digital world. The technology I bought today is already a dinosaur before I can unpack it out of the box.
The biggest need on our campus is embedded professional development. We are asking our teachers to incorporate technology in their lessons yet they don't know how to do this or to use the technology. We need to find a way to catch our teachers up with the knowledge our students already know when they walk in the door. It is going to be tough to know more than our students when it comes to technology.
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