It’s just another day …
Wednesday, 3. February 2010
In Prairie South School Division Westmount School’s Kathy Cassidy was selected as one of Canada’s most tech-savvy teachers. I’m impressed with the technology she has introduced in her classroom. She is leading in a direction I want to follow. I was reflecting on the absence of DVD or VHS use in the video. There were no shots of books or traditional seat work either. It is there in the classroom I am sure and I understand why it is not in this short video. The video highlights new instructional technologies. In 2010 viewers would wonder why a video would highlight decades old technology like video recordings. They have been more or less successfully integrated into North American classrooms. I hope we are working for the day when Skyping with a guest, receiving an aunt’s response to a blog, and compiling data from around the world on a wiki are as prosaic and unremarkable as slapping a DVD into a machine and watching Bill Nye the Science Guy.
