Q. Governor Geringer, you are completing your first term as governor of Wyoming. During your first term, you have been a proponent of incorporating technology into education. The number-one role technology should play is enhancing student learning. I should qualify that by saying technology properly applied would be something you wouldn't even see. It also gives teachers the gift of time so they can work with advanced students to keep them moving at their own pace and give kids who need a little bit more attention the time they need.
Technology can free up a teacher's administrative workload.
Also, through technology, teachers may work more as teams where knowledge is seen as being interrelated. You don't have to just teach science or just teach math or just teach music. All these areas are interrelated. But whether or not teachers can effectively take advantage of technology depends tremendously on them being prepared to do so. Before school personnel go out and start purchasing technology, they need to put together a very thoughtful, long-range plan that includes substantial investment to make sure teachers and other staff members feel comfortable using the technology that's going to be available so that it is effectively integrated into the school and into the curriculum.