Vision is scarce. Schools and districts do not share a forward-looking vision of what technology can bring to learning. As a result, schools are beginning to use learning technology, but most use it to automate rather than to bring students powerful learning opportunities never before possible. Schools need to build on the innovative work of others both inside and outside education communities. Visual, graphic, and audio insights into such possibilities will spark the imagination of schools to vision beyond such limitations.
Most incredible journeys start with setting a common destination of choice.
This project would provide educators with ideas, images, and insights into such possibilities. Schools' innovation cycles with technology are flat. Teachers are becoming fluent with technology, but most have not been able to use that fluency as the basis for high-performance classrooms that advance teaching and learning through technology. Research shows that the more closely connected professional development is to student work, the more significant it becomes both to the educator and to the school renewal process overall. The responsibility for such renewal should not rest solely with teachers or schools.