Simple truth, y’all: All too often, our use of educational technology in schools goes horribly, horribly wrong.
Need proof?
Then check out this picture that a friend of mine who works in a district where every classroom has an Interactive Whiteboard and ceiling mounted projector took the other day:
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That’s an “Interactive Whiteboard” for you, huh?
The moral of the story ONCE AGAIN is that you can’t spend your way to meaningful change — and until you’re willing to rethink what highly engaged classrooms are REALLY supposed to look like, you may as well keep all your hard-earned cabbage in your wallet.
#sheesh
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