Technology Bond Paths and Pitfalls
This week we talk with Paul Hillman, Partner and Director of Client Relationships in the Technology Consulting firm C/D/H. The topic of our conversation is Technology Bond paths and pitfalls. Paul is well versed in K-12 Educational Technology consulting and his insights will be interesting to anyone looking to establish and manage a Technology Bond.
Paul advises "I would say to superintendents to not get snowed by the techno speak that often happens from maybe our own IT department or certainly the vendors that come in and promise the world. These are fairly straightforward matters when we really start thinking about them. Kids have to learn. We need enabling technologies to help with that. Sometimes its software, sometimes its document, cameras or projector systems. Don't get caught up in the whizz-bang features of what is happening out there."
Further on the point he says, "Do what you know is probably right, which is kids are going to need computers, they are going to need access the internet. We need to protect them when they get out to the Internet. We need to make sure that the systems that the school district has are reliable, that the teachers can depend on it, and then go down that path."
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