Another alternative is the potential for home schooling to take the place of the fad marketplace for educational technology. Build Your Personal Awareness and Skills. Build awareness about emerging technologies. Build skills using technology that are long lasting and durable to the fast pace of change. Identify and follow key convergence points of technology development.
Technology development is increasingly the result of cross-fertilization between technology areas.
Build core knowledge and skills around the nodes of intersection, such as the activity around the meeting of Hollywood and computerized special effects, or where telecommunications meets the computer operating systems resulting in miniaturized, portable appliances. Beware of Leftovers, Holdouts, Reworked Relics. The Office Automation model has become pervasive in almost all distributed computer-based technologies. Determine whether this model suits your needs as an educator, or the students needs as a learner. Develop a Concept and a Plan.