"We have established Curriculum Technology Partners, borrowing the name and idea from Grand Forks Public Schools where they proved that it works. These CTPs are not troubleshooters, but work with the teacher in planning and implementing lessons that use technology to enhance learning. The teacher does not send their students to the CTP to do technology. The CTP works with the teacher to get them more involved in using technology on a day-to-day basis in their teaching. This is a staff development model that was originally funded by a Challenge Grant, and is now partially funded by Title II Part D." Interview with Craig Nansen, Director of Technology Minot Public Schools, Minot, North Dakota http://www.newcurriculum.com/2002/int9-3.htm\\ 3/9/2002
"So this is a long way away from going from where a teacher was before, teaching certain facts, to saying, "Well you're now going to create an open environment where students come to those conclusions by discovery as opposed to instruction." So, what we're saying now to the teachers is "This is a very powerful environment. We'll give you as much assistance as we can, but what we want you to do is to change what you're doing. We want you change your relationship with the student and we want you to see the classroom in a very different sense. No longer is the lesson contained in four walls, you should be able to access the information anywhere, anytime." And we're saying the class doesn't stop. Whether 40 minutes or an hour and a half or twenty minutes, it just keeps on going. So we're saying to teachers, "You need to specify the outcomes you want, the content that has to be covered, and you give the students a chance to say, 'Well, actually, I can do it this way.'" Interview with David Loader, Former Principal Methodist Ladies College, Victoria, Australia http://www.newcurriculum.com/2002/int9-30.htm 30/9/2002
"In the early years the technology people had a large voice because they were the only ones that understood the environment. And so we gave them a lot of authority. But at some stage we had to take it back again and put it into the hands of the educators."
