HS Principal

The sessions were mostly tech related though my particular sessions were on critical thinking. Though not tech related I consider critical thinking important to the development of tech in the classroom. Here is how I see the connection: one of the biggest issues relating tech in the classroom is that we simply replace old methodologies with high tech ones, i.e. more bells and whistles (to use an overworked phrase). In other words, we don’t do posters we do power point, we don’t type we word process, etc. CT is one of the first steps to get teachers to change their thinking. Once they can make this pedagogical shift, they can see how implementing new technology is not about doing old things a new way but a shift in thinking and an attempt to teach new skills among other things.