It was like a gut punch,
This morning,
When I glanced at my Twitter feed, and realized that the North Carolina Technology In Education Society’s annual edtech conference began today, completely without my knowledge. How could that happen?
My knee-jerk response was, “I must truly be retired.”
But that wasn’t good enough. I tweeted about it. I posted my thoughts on Facebook. Then a conference representative saw my comments, connected, and invited me over to the convention center tomorrow.
If I was truly retired, would I go? If I go does it mean that I’m not ready to retire?
It doesn’t matter. I’m going.
So I downloaded the conference App and started scanning the presentations. One observation. It seems that personalized learning has become the new ready phrase that can be wrapped around any and every technology that anyone wants to sell you. Sad!
But what really wrinkled my brain was a tweet from Brandy Reader from Davidson County. Now tell me this (if you’re old enough to remember)
“How Jetsons would it have seemed, when I started teaching in 1976, that I’d hear someone say (tweet)…
