Reinventing Our Schools

According to "Ed School News," Baltimore City Schools have taken a huge step in the technology direction. I was actually quite interested in the program the school district is going to be using. The program is called SAFARI, and it is a type of library program that allows teachers to access different educational games, videos and activities. This a great step for a city school district. Bringing technology into a large districts allows all the teachers and students to create a school community. In addition, the Baltimore district created groups of teachers to work on ways the new technology could be used in the classrooms.

Teacher technology groups are something all districts should use when bringing in new technologies. Teachers need to understand the technology and how they can use it in their classrooms, otherwise they will not use it.

As the Technorati report states, blogs are booming. Which means technology is booming. Which means our students will be more interested in interactive-technology based classrooms.