Setting the Stage for Digital Inclusion

Marc Carbone ~ Mark’s Musings ~ 

 

I am always amazed at how time to reflect changes what eventually ends up in a blog post.  This post is a great example of this notion as I originally thought I might write about these topics in different posts, but now I  think the ideas are more powerful together.

 

I had the privilege of attending and presenting at the  1:1 Computing Conference  this fall with  Ed Doadt.  It was great to meet so many passionate educators at the event. Two ideas from this conference really struck me.

 

First, I was amazed at the high number of schools/districts that were declaring “singular”  IT strategies: we use ONLY iOS or win 7/8 or  chromebooks or BYOD devices.  This is an all in approach with no flexibility or notion that different devices have different strengths/weaknesses, that students will have varying comfort levels with different devices, that technology will continue to develop and change at a torrid pace never experienced before or that a variety of devices might be a better fit to support learning.  I feel strongly that our approach at  WRDSB  to use and support a variety of devices  to support learning will yield better results than a singular strategy approach.

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