This week my thoughts started with yes, we can and should include creativity in a tech plan. Besides technologies naturally lend themselves by their very nature to creativity. This thought was seconded by Colin and I then extended it to Matt and Thomas who were coming from the angle that creativity has to likely come down from the teacher. However, upon listening to Dr. Sugata Mitra's TED talk that Chris provided I started to rethink the entire role of a tech plan. If schools as we know them are obsolete, why are we trying to fit a technology plan into an obsolete machine? Perhaps the new 'school' would be the tech plan itself. Describing what technologies to expose students to and then let the 'learning emerge' from the students as Mitra stated. A big leap, but really had me looking at technology plans as a new entity rather than a square peg being fit into a round hole.
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