Share your reasons for integrating technology to enhance learning using #whytechsuhsd

Edtech is no panacea.  (Bet you didn’t think you’d read that on the EdTech website!)  The extent to which integrating technology will reap benefits to learning depends on the extent to which educators intentionally plan for technology usage based on the curricular goals and pedagogical strategies that are being employed, and carefully select the tech tools that have the ability to enhance those learning objectives.

The #whytechsuhsd hashtag is an attempt to crowdsource the best ideas in SUHSD … and the Interwebs …, to encourage widespread implementation of tech in thoughtful and insightful ways.

I’m calling on all #suhsd educators to share their #whytechsuhsd ideas over the next few weeks so that we can encourage and support one another to integrate tech thoughtfully and intentionally, for learning to flourish.

Here’s the plan:

1. If you can be pithy, post a tweet and keep it to 140 characters.
2. If it takes more than 140 characters, write a blog post and tweet your post.
3. If you don’t have a blog, write a post for the SUHSDlearns blog and tweet that post.

The instructional focus of Sweetwater is to implement effective initial instruction that leads to student engagement and mastery, through a lens of equity.  Technology can absolutely impact all three aspects of this goal as we put our best ideas together and share widely.

#whytechsuhsd

#bettertogether

Here’s an article by Alan November to get the juices flowing.

Crafting a Vision for Empowered Learning and Teaching: Beyond the $1,000 Pencil