As an educational administrator on campus, I feel integrating technolgy in every subject is a must. I would first begin by providing staff development to teachers and teacher assistants. This staff development would begin with general information about technology as a whole. Using STaR Chart would illustrate our campus' need to have more technology in the classroom. Our school has excellent resources thanks to our administrators that have allocated resources to get us ceiling mounted projectors, interwrite pads for teachers, document cameras, and laptops.
This is a great start, but students need to take hold of their learning. Students are eager and willing to use Ipods and handhelds to complete assignments. They want to make movies and blogs like we do, but they don't have the knowledge. Our students are just waiting to be exposed to something new and exciting. The only way to get this knowledge to them is by empowering teachers and making them technologically aware through staff development.
I would try my best to obtain funds for providing incentives for teachers, such as a set of webcams, microphones or mp3 players that stream video. Once teachers take ownership, then I feel it would be easier for them to teach their students.
Probably the most difficult task is going to have to be getting past all the "but"s and "that won't work." I figure that as long as I "wow" them then maybe they'll be excited.
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