Thursday, July 31, 2008

Administration Defect

My school and school district have funny ways of dealing with implementing technology and technological support. But I'm not laughing and neither should the taxpayers. It pains me to see how much money and resources our school and district has wasted.

Although we have great tech coordinators and district-level tech people, our school continues to lack in providing support and follow-up with recipients of new technology. This is not the tech coordinator's fault. It is an Administration defect where I am starting to think they are happier bragging about how much tech they have plugged into our classrooms, as opposed to how effective it has been. And I almost never hear anyone mention the students.

In fairness, maybe they are trying their best, but just a bit clueless. If so, there needs to be a wake up call for the Administration to drop their tech-decision powers and let the tech department lead the way with implementing technology properly.

Oh and it's not just for the teachers... the students deserve better.

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