Developing a technology curriculum.

My school has no technology curriculum. As you can imagine this is a problem for me.

It’s not that my school doesn’t like technology; it’s more that we’ve fallen into a crack between two points. We know what we want and we know what we don’t want, but how do we get from one to the other?

We don’t want: A stand along technology class. Despite my thoughts that there are clear advantages to this it is widely seen as a thing of the past. Personally I can see a place for it in a supporting role to technology being present and prevalent throughout, but the danger is that it inevitably becomes a way to exile technology out of the classroom.

What we do want: Technology integrated into all aspects of the school curriculum. The tech is in place both to help support the learning going on within those subjects and towards the goals of the subject specific curriculum and to develop the technology skills of the students. This will all come together throughout their time from pre-K to high school graduation to create confident and adept users ready for the 21^st century.

What we’ve got: We’ve ditched that awful technology class, and relied that technology would magically happen within every class in an organized manner and the students would holistically learn everything they needed. It’s piece-meal and disorganized.

So here’s me and the technology team trying to put together something solid. We’re going to look at all the tech standards and everything we know and try and come up with a plan that runs through every grade and subject to develop our students.