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Technology in Education
"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." - General Eric Shinseki
"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." - General Eric Shinseki
A blog about Politics, School & Education, and Technology.
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First off, I have to publicly thank Jeanette Dow for putting a little book in my hand yesterday and instructing me to read it. Mrs. Dow is the library aide at Veterans Elementary, so it's no surprise that she put a book in my hand and instructed me to read it - that is what she is supposed to do!
I read the book, Machines are the easy part; people are the hard part: Observations about making technology work in schools - by Doug Johnson, in about an hour. This has more to do...
I couldn't stand it anymore. After working for a year on my part (technology) of building the brand new Veterans Elementary School, I just had to know how my spending and purchasing for the new school compared with the Norris School District's other new school - Norris Elementary.
I wasn't working here for the construction of Norris Elementary School just 2-3 years ago, and Veterans has been my first experience heading up technology operations during the building of a new school in...
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