Being a Change Agent aka The Status Quo Sucks

Today was the last lecture for our EdTech & Design class. Our carefully chosen lecture topic was "Being a Change Agent in Your School". All to often we hear from our students that we are the only ones who are preaching and also infusing technology in to teaching and learning. All to often our students who graduate with heads and hearts full of great innovative ideas meet the wall of problems created by stubborn or sick with apprehension teachers and technology coordinators in their new workplaces. Ronald Regan once said “Status quo, you know, that is Latin for ''the mess we're in."

How many of our students will stand up against status quo? How many will be changed by the old cadre?

We polled them today during our regular backchannel discussion via the coveritlive! The results are promising:

Morning lecture:
afternoon lecture:
Dr.Z quoted Robert F. Kennedy

Some men see things as they are and ask “Why?”
I dream things that never were and ask “Why Not?

Good luck guys! You are a smart bunch. Just don't lose the enthusiasm, dream big, and never stop learning! As my friend, Martajek, says: "Those who don't keep marching perish"


photo by Blackwood