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I found a quote in the "Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age" to be very interesting: "Most important, new technologies allow for two-way interactive assessments. With these technologies available in our classrooms, we will be able to create learning environments that not only teach, but also "learn" to teach more effectively. By distributing the intelligence between student and environment, the curriculum will be able to track student successes and weaknesses and monitor the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of its own methods. The result will be a curriculum that becomes smarter, not more outdated, over time."

This is the hope for all teachers. As technology specialists, we could encourage and excite many teachers with this as a possibility. Every teacher wants to reach their students where they are, enhance their successes and attack the weaknesses. If technology has a way to make this happen, than all students WILL learn.

That said, the stress of including these new techniques with our already jam packed curriculum is a high mountain to climb. Teachers are stretched thin and feeling more stress every year to get teach with technology they may not be familiar with or have support in using. A good example is sometimes a non-example. I will search for //teaching math with technology// or something similar every so often just to see if anything new is being done. This week when I searched, I found this video, which is not very good. There is no audio, the student using the technology is busy making the graphics cute instead of concentrating on teaching/presenting with the technology. It seems to be another example of "see, I'm using technology" instead of using in a way that enhances the lesson.

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