An article on eSCHOOL NEWS titled NECC highlights tech’s ‘transformative’ power reports on the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio. Transformation and collaboration were the central ideas.
ISTE President Trina J. Davis opened the conference by challenging attendees to really transform education through the use of technology, not just layer technology onto traditional instructional practices.
Davis suggested these strategies
- Become powerful advocates for change
- Share your knowledge and your passion
- Showcase your work and that of your students in innovative ways
- Dream big
- Use all of the resources available to you
“Collectively, we can have a real impact around the globe and be effective change agents,” Davis concluded.
So, how do you see yourself measuring up? Are you an agent for change, or a lurker just layering technology onto what you’ve always done?
For me, one of the big measuring sticks is to think about what you are now doing differently, or, what have you ceased to do altogether? For surely you can’t do things differently if you are doing the things you always did. That involves some hard decisions, some re-organisation, some learning of new tricks, some re-prioritisation. And you are never too old to do any of this!
How do you show you are an agent for change? What are you doing to spread the word?
How do you measure your success?
Here at education.au we are trying to help educators to collaborate, to learn about new technologies and new ways of doing things, to join supportive communities of practice.
And I’m doing my bit out on the hustings in the next few days: delivering 3 sessions at the local CEGSA conference today and tomorrow, and then an edna workshop in Hobart on Monday.
They are not chores though - I enjoy my role as an agent of change, as you can see from this blog and others that I author.
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