As I was researching a name for a project I’m working on I came across a quote by Ellie from the movie UP, "Adventure is out there!" Ellie is talking to Carl about all the adventures she is going to have when she gets older. She even has an adventure book she is saving for the day when she can go to South America. This got me thinking about the Spirit of Adventure, the name of Charles Muntz's famed dirigible in which he traveled the world. In the movie Up, the childhood versions of Carl and Ellie were obsessed with Muntz and his dirigible, the same way I am obsessed with helping my teachers achieve their potential with technology. The more I started to think about Ellie's plan to move to South America I couldn’t help but compare it to a teacher's use of classroom technology. Teachers have the best intentions to use technology to create technology-infused, content-based lessons that enhance instruction-just like Ellie has every intention of someday going to South America. However, much like the movie Up, as Ellie and Carl begin to live their lives, the everyday begins to get the best of their intentions. The same can be said about classroom technology, it's there every day but maybe it's only used as a substitution for research or to practice skills on a website or through an app. Too often technology integration becomes an afterthought, something that schools make time for if the schedule allows. Technology should be like Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University (FPU), a methodical plan for the future, and not like Carl and Ellie, throwing change in a jar and hoping the plan works . What happens in those situations is the jar gets broken and the technology combined with a teacher's true potential is never achieved.
Over the next few blog post we will compare Dave Ramsey's FPU steps to the fundamentals of technology integration, using Carl and Ellie as a guide. Before we begin, let's layout dave Ramsey's FPU steps and how they correlate to technology integration:
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