I've been traipsing in the edtech weeds the last few days, following those members of my PLN that are attending the all powerful and wonderful ISTE in San Diego. I've never been to ISTE before, and although everyone talks and writes about how wonderful it is, I'm not completely sold.
Most likely, it's because I'm jealous and really want to be there. Although, what would I do when I got there? Meeting people in person from my PLN would seem like fun, but what if after we chatted about edtech and ed reform we had nothing else in common? What if (gasp here) we completely disagreed about anything? Would I stop following their blogs, etc? Would I post anti-whatever they posted blog entries? Maybe not meeting in person is really the best way to avoid all of this animosity.
OR I could simply have tried harder to get to ISTE and be learning a ton of new things, meeting fascinating people, and becoming a better educator today than I was yesterday. Damn you ISTE, for being the unholy grail of tech integration in education.
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Most likely, it's because I'm jealous and really want to be there. Although, what would I do when I got there? Meeting people in person from my PLN would seem like fun, but what if after we chatted about edtech and ed reform we had nothing else in common? What if (gasp here) we completely disagreed about anything? Would I stop following their blogs, etc? Would I post anti-whatever they posted blog entries? Maybe not meeting in person is really the best way to avoid all of this animosity.
OR I could simply have tried harder to get to ISTE and be learning a ton of new things, meeting fascinating people, and becoming a better educator today than I was yesterday. Damn you ISTE, for being the unholy grail of tech integration in education.
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