{"id":101,"date":"2007-04-15T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T23:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-07-23T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T17:11:37","slug":"it-is-just-not-about-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"It is just not about technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently teaching a course, working with a group of teachers on some class projects and just came back from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masscue.org\/\">MassCUE<\/a> leadership meeting.  In all of these setting the running theme has been, <em>it is just not about the technology anymore. <\/em>This is something that I have felt quite strongly about for a long time, but it is nice to see the classroom teachers realize that as well.  I am not asked as often how to use the technology, but how to help meet certain needs and objectives; how to sort, mange and use information and; to find alternative ways to demonstrate understanding. Many of the teachers are realizing they need to do something different to keep the kids engaged, meet the objectives and reach an increasingly diverse population.<\/p>\n<p>I think our focus is where it should be, on student learning. We need to look at our students, what are they learning, how to support it, how to help them develop critical thinking skills.  As our students experiences and prior knowledge change we find we need to change.  Some times we must step out of our comfort zone and step into our students comfort zone to engage them in the learning process.  Learning is an &#8220;active sport&#8221;, as an old colleague of  mine use to say and the teacher is both cheerleader and coach. The teacher is also a life long leaner and needs to participate in learning about our changing world and how to interact in it. It is not about the technology it is about learning.<\/p>\n<p>So if it is not about the technology and my job title and licence are K-12 Technology Integration Specialist what should they be called.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently teaching a course, working with a group of teachers on some class projects and just came back from a MassCUE leadership meeting. In all of these setting the running theme has been, it is just not about the technology anymore. This is something that I have felt quite strongly about for a long time, but it is nice to see the classroom teachers realize that as well. I am not asked as often how to use the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=101\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,27,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}