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Although I slept through the NECC 09 “debate” this morning, and barely stayed awake through it tonight when I listened to it, I have to admit that Gary Stager’s words had me cheering. Ok, ok, I was using my “inside voice.”

This part was particularly engaging:

If the level of resistance to change remains constant, no matter what we ask of teachers, then shouldn’t we raise our expectations substantially?

Our network policies treat teachers and children as either imbeciles or felons. How many of you are unable to use your classroom computers in educationally sound ways because of a network policy created without your input?

We install iPod labs so that children can be marched down the hall once a week for iPod lessons. We chain laptop computers to desks and don’t allow children to take them home. That’s the point of a laptop. You cannot blame such stupidity on four walls of brick and mortar. The blame lies within the bankruptcy of our imaginations.
Source: Stager’s Blog

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