The Changing Face of Educational Technology

I am currently on break from an online workshop for school administrators. The topic is technology in education. Of course, this is a major source of interest for me. I believe that the influence of technology in education will grow dramatically in the near future. Schools are places where new technologies can be used to increase student engagement. The issues that we have to overcome are fear of the new technologies and the resistance to use and support such technologies. Many of these technologies can be used to create and design. Creating and designing are skills that our kids will need along with the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. There are schools out there embracing these technologies and using them to enhance instruction, collaboration, and communication. I would hope that by the time my tenure as ended at Athens High School, we have become one of those schools