Great Success is always Predicted to Fail

How many times am I going to hear this???

"The kids will break them, lose them, and they will get stolen."
"In 2 years the tablets will be irrelevant and useless."
"The tablets will not solve our educational problems."

By the way, educational problems will never be solved.  (That should be in that quote with death and taxes.)

Is is not just human nature to resist change?  Absolutely!  But, hey, is all this negativity really necessary?   History speaks amazing success of many innovations and ideas that were doubted and predicted to fail.

What I see is a general lack of knowledge, written by a whole bunch of people that went to school, but yet, have never spent one day teaching school.  FYI:  It's real different now.

I would like to hear from an actual student;   talking about how the tablets are not going to help them, or how the tablets are useless, or how the tablets will be irrelevant in their education in 2 years, then, I think I would actually listen.  Give me a current student right now from Kindergarten to the University level that sees technology as irrelevant and useless;  Doubt you can find one.

Wake up people.  We need technology in our schools and it will be useful and relevant now as it will be 2 years from now; even more so.  This is the future; you either embrace it and support it, or you will be the one that gets left behind.

P.S.  - We passed out the tablets 2 school days ago; I have seen more introverts become more involved and active in class than I have seen in my 18 years of teaching.  

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