These are all the kinds of paths that technology can clearly support. Thus, training should occur through a combination of stand-alone classes and through integration and modeling of IT in all courses. The only institution noted for significant progress in these areas was Pepperdine University. Few people deny the importance of technology for improving our schools but the priority must be placed on the training of school leaders as well as teachers. Thus, technology improvement efforts should focus on training Principals so they can provide the leadership missing in so many of our schools today.
Principals can help take the computer from isolated labs and into the classrooms.
The goal is to show teachers how it can be an effective daily activity and not an activity that we send kids to the lab for two times a week. In order for administrators to acquire the vision needed in technology, higher education institutions must rethink their training programs. Providing leaders with leadership vision in technology demands a training program for the specialists, the doctors of education in our colleges of education. By gaining these skills K-12 administrators would be better able to recommend training for their staff, better able to understand what to evaluate when they go into classes using technology, and better able to make decisions about the most effective use of technology in their building. This site is an on-going project created by the students of Dr. Moursund's Seminar on Issues and Ideas in Technology in Education at the University of Oregon .