• Dr. McConnell is the President of Connected Consulting, a consulting firm that works with school leaders to develop technology integration plans that include visions for change, classroom goals, and capacity building for school leaders and teachers. For information, visit www.connectedconsulting.com.

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  • What is EdTech’s Role in the Perfect School?

    by Dr. Billie J. McConnell
    7 minutes read

    This is the second installment of The Perfect School series originally published in SEEN Magazine.   We must start with the “perfect school.” Until we come to an agreement on what students should learn and how they will best learn, we can’t choose the technology that allows us to meet our goals. We must continue to discuss this at the national and state levels, but it must also be discussed at the local level where the decision to buy technology is being made. For decades we have been assuming, at least by our practice, that our methods of teaching and the format of school was already set, so we have been looking for ways technology would improve it or make it more efficient. We have been assuming that if we get just the right technology we will have more success. We have been working on the assumption that if we …

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