TIE conference in Colorado

From one world to the other!

I now find myself at a conference in Colorado that is about bringing technology into education. A perfect venue to share how schools have been using the website to enrich-en the learning experience.

It's a long ways from Rwanda, but oh so beautiful!

Colorado sunset.

View from the condo where I am staying in Dillon CO.

My co-presenter at the TIE conference, Amy Tharp, Reading Specialist at Highland Elementary in Littleton CO.

Technology is a wonderful tool that has the capacity to bring the world to your classroom.  But it runs the risk of being sterile, dry or detached like a video game.  The challenge is how to use it as a tool to connect the students to the world on a heart and soulful level, how can it be used to connect the hearts of people from one world with the other in a way that inspires educates and enriches both worlds?  Creating a special synergy, which one and one does not make two, but more than anyone could have ever imagined.  Sparking the curiosity and empathy for the world.

Technology is organic in that it continues to change and grow, and when used in creative authentic ways, it can help facilitate the same in young minds and hearts.

 

Cheers,

Dean