Reaching technology goals for schools systems is an incessant task. There is at least a recognition of the task, without the incessant aspects in Kinston, North Carolina...via the Kingston Free Press:
"We have to put the teacher on the same wavelength as the students," Sharon Kimrey, Banks Elementary School Principal, said. "Technology helps us to do this."Lenoir County Schools has no plans to change curriculum yet. Individual schools initially will be responsible for using new ways of teaching. The county would look at more advanced technological programs within five to seven years.
FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS? Wow. Let's see (stay with me for a moment). If one calendar year equals three years in technological time (it's really not linear, it's exponential), Kingston will only be 15 to 20 years behind the curve once the school system looks at more advanced technological programs. OK, I am not being fair to Principal Kimrey, there are other ways to advance technology without the school system's support and I wish her great success in achieving her goals. If indeed the 5 to 7 year portion of the article is true, that's pretty sad. Go ahead and tell Lenoir's 8th graders not to expect too much more in the way of technology until they are off to college...but the next class will be looking at something more advanced (whatever that means).
Maybe this IS a tortoise-and-hare kind of chase...but if the technology Dragon wins, someone will be asking, "Do want fries with your Hasenpfeffer and Turtle Steaks Marchand de Vin?"