Educational+Technology+Vision

Educational Technology Vision I completely agree with The 2010 Horizon Report in regard to the direction that technology is moving. As stated in the report technology is increasingly a means for empowering students, a method for communication and socializing. Technology is impacting all of our lives, and especially the lives of students. Technology continues to profoundly affect the way we work, collaborate, play, learn, socialize, and collaborate. I believe as the report indicates that technology skills are becoming critical to success in almost every arena and those who are more facile with technology will advance while those without access or skills will not. I think that as educators it is our responsibility to prepare our students for what lies ahead. However in order to prepare our students it is crucial that we prepare ourselves. I further believe that it would be very difficult to teach students these new emerging skills if we have not prepared ourselves. We must expose these new technologies to our students as soon as possible. I also believe that if we as educators fail to prepare ourselves we will become obsolete.