THE TOTAL TECH-OVER

I am a former school teacher with eighteen years experience as a successful English, Theatre, and Film Studies teacher. In 1997, I led the charge for technology integration with a 1:1 roll out program for middle and high school students at the Australian International School in Jakarta, Indonesia. This was the age of floppy disks and before Google Apps for Education. Mostly, students lugged the laptops around as fancy notebooks and typewriters. Since then, I and technology have come a long way... What began as simple substitution where technology merely replaced what is done with paper and pen, soon evolved into "What else can I do with the technology we have?" "How can I further student learning leveraging this technology?" "What can students do with technology that they couldn't do before?"