Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Excuses, excuses, excuses

The conversation in education seems never-ending... "how do we use technology to teach?" (Of course, the "use technology to teach" in my question could be replaced with most any initiative one wants to pursue.

The scary tendency I have observed is that educators seem to be really good at starting... we decide we want to use technology (again replace that as fits your situation) and we go in search of a way to do it, and we start...

and as we begin to make progress, we get uncomfortable... and we claim we need more professional development... and we claim we need more time... and we claim the test scores need attention... and we claim there is no money...

and we fail...

and we start over again.

I call this horizontal progress.

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