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I have been following a public/personal dialogue at Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog. Mr. Johnson provides a couple of responses to Jim Holland’s When Teachers Don’t Get It: Myths, Misconceptions, and other Taradiddle. He begins with his own post entitled When Techies Don’t Get It and follows that up with The Teacher’s Technology Manifesto and Apology to tech directors.

As I read these posts, I thought about how the success of any kind of enterprise is really dependent on the commitment of all parties involved. Techies need to be sensitive to the diverse needs and level of experience of teachers, differentiating and providing scaffolding (whew, teacher words!) to allow those teachers to be successful. At the same time, teachers also must be willing to take chances and try new things. Just like in the classroom, we cannot depend entirely on one party to compromise for the other.

My 2¢