Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

I had planned to write about our up coming Applied Technology in the Curriculum course of podcasting, but the current fiscal and monetary crisis in California became a Mack truck that ran over the puppy that was the structure of our ATC course.  I had to cancel the course, and I’m now in the process of rethinking the structure.

 

I need to eliminate the hardware aspect and focus on less tangible inducements to entice teachers to employ helpful technology in their curricula.  Difficult task when technology is essentially a hardware driven field.

 

Part of me wants to throw my hands up in frustration at the whole thing.  Incomprehensible is the word I would use to describe our public officials’ apparent unwillingness to serve the public interest.  The Historian in me (Sonoma Sate University, 2001) wonders if this failure of the state government will result in wave of reforms that resembles the Progressive Era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

 

Still, frustration and difficulty are merely conditions under which my job must be done.  I’m working on that revision of the ATC and I’ll post it when I get it right.

Daniel

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