Thing 7c: Willing to be Disturbed

Another great article from Will Richardson’s blog entitled Willing to be Disturbed. I feel fortunate to work in a district with a new IT Director (1 year under her belt) who has a vision beyond “security” beyond the basics and who pushes the vision of everyone in the IT department. While other areas of the curriculum had grown in our district, technology just plodded along. There might a teacher here or there trying something new and enlightening, challenging our resources. But there was no way any global support of these changes; especially if it challenged our “security”.

I found this thought to be interesting from Will’s article -

It takes a vision to imagine what the change might look like, not to paint it with hard lines but to at least have the basic brushstrokes down.

Our district was so engrossed with the hard lines that we never made any progress. We are now making huge leaps and bounds. We have the general ideas and now we are trying to fill in the strokes – I think its going to get mucky as we make some of these decisions. But that’s ok. We need to be flexible and modify our vision as we start implementing pieces of new technologies. Thanks.