Dr. Scott Mcleod (Dangerously Irrelevant) wrote the following in May, 2007…do you think the situation has improved?

This tale’s been told before. Technology coordinators who are more concerned with disabling than enabling. Technology personnel that we would hope would be progressive, forward thinkers regarding digital technologies but instead are regressive gatekeepers. Teachers and administrators that try to move into the 21st century but run into the brick wall of supervisors or support personnel. 

Superintendents that allow such situations to occur rather than insisting that their district figure out how to make it work (like other districts have). Educators that fail to understand that the world around them has changed and that their relevance to that world is diminishing daily.

The answer is a resounding YES, ABSOLUTELY! You’d hope for changes since 2007, right? For fun, I asked a colleague–Mary Ray (@mray29)– to brainstorm a list of NOs that have been converted into YESs:

1. YES to GoogleApps for Education
2. YES to encouraging students to bring their own technology to school
3. YES to encouraging teachers to bring their own technology to school
4. YES to allowing teachers to be administrators of district-owned technology assigned to them
5. YES to Campus Facebook, Instagram accounts
6. YES to Twitter for Professional Learning for Staff
7. YES to streaming video vs “download it at home and then bring it to work”
8. YES to creating virtual classroom spaces using Edmodo, Moodle, etc.
9. YES to YouTube
10. YES to Blogging as a tool for reflection and publication for students and staff
11. YES to more bandwidth for schools
12. YES to ubiquitous WiFi access
13. YES to Face to Face AND online professional learning opportunities
14. YES to District-hosted video streaming solution (e.g. PHPMotion)
15. YES to using social media for instructional support during the day

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