How to Choose the Right Technology for Your District
When IT decision-makers consider the results they’re trying to achieve, they may find new tools they hadn’t previously considered.
“Sometimes we get stuck on the tool first, but it’s really not about the tool,” Brinson says. “It’s outcome first, then find the tool that supports the outcome.”
To determine the desired outcome, ed tech specialists should be looking at both the district’s objectives and the educators’ objectives. This starts with a conversation. When ed tech leaders, teachers and librarians initiate conversations about their tech needs, those conversations make their way up the chain to administrators.
“What I have found is that impact happens when you start talking and teachers start talking and the principal starts talking,” Brinson says of bringing the conversation to superintendents and executive directors. “It filters up, and it always gets to where it needs to be.”