On our most recent site visit to Denver, we were privileged to visit two school districts who are doing great things with educational technology.  I am struggling with wording as technology, technology integration, educational technology, etc, could all be misnomers.  Maybe Ivan Duran's term of technology infusion is my favorite right now.  Ivan, by the way, is the education technology director for Aurora Public Schools (one of the districts we visited in April.)  What we mean when we talk about the proper use of technology is, of course, not technology for technology's sake.  It is rather using technolgy to facilitate and enhance learning.  Once we establish what the students should know and be able to do, how do we best utilize technology to facilitate that learning in the best possible manner?  So, technology is infused into the curriculum across the board and in all classrooms.  It may look and act differently in different classrooms, but the bottom line is using technology to most effectively facilitate learning.

As we know that we are preparing students for jobs that are not yet created (and jobs that we cannot even imagine,) we are preparing them for a world of technology not yet created (and not yet imagined.)  We must make most effective use of all technologies available and especially those that the students are using every day.  As educators, we must also stay in tune with new technologies and begin to imagine the possibilities.  Nothing in education is static, but especially in terms of technology the landscape is kinetic.  Actively kinetic.

At the conference this year, you will experience technology infusion.  From start to finish—and everywhere you go.  Now, I am not going to give away all the details upfront—part of the reason for this blog is to help entice folks to want to come to the conference.  But, lots of details will be revealed as we wind down to the time of the conference.

Stay tuned.