Executive Perspective
Harnessing Kids’ Tech Fascinationby DANIEL A. DOMENECH
I am intimidated by people like Alan November whose fingers glide over their
computer keys and in the process go to websites that offer the answers to all
the questions that would otherwise go unanswered. I do e-mail and an
occasional PowerPoint presentation. I am proud of the fact I now can do e-mail
on my BlackBerry as well. That’s the extent of my prowess in technology.
Daniel A. Domenech
Jillian, my 17-year-old high school senior, is another story. She sleeps with
her iPhone under her pillow. If it were waterproof, I am sure that she would
bathe with it. She does incredible things with her MacBook, from videos to post
on YouTube to the content of her Facebook pages. Getting her to do her homework
is a challenge, but getting her to turn off her tech tools and go to sleep is an
even bigger challenge.This is the message that November, Keith Krueger
and other presenters at our AASA Seattle Summit in midsummer conveyed: Education
is missing the boat by not taking advantage of the love affair between our kids
and technology.Personal PanicI was a young
superintendent
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Executive Perspective Harnessing Kids’ Tech Fascination by DANIEL A. DOMENECH I am intimidated by people like Alan November whose fingers glide over their computer keys and in the process go to websites that offer the answers to all the questions that would otherwise go unanswered. I do e-mail and an occasional PowerPoint presentation. I am proud of the fact I now can do e-mail on my BlackBerry as well. That’s the extent of my prowess in technology. Daniel A. Domenech Jillian, my 17-year-old high school senior, is another story. She sleeps with her iPhone under her pillow. If it were waterproof, I am sure that she would bathe with it. She does incredible things with her MacBook, from videos to post on YouTube to the content of her Facebook pages. Getting her to do her homework is a challenge, but getting her to turn off her tech tools and go to sleep is an even bigger challenge. This is the message that November, Keith Krueger and other presenters at our AASA Seattle Summit in midsummer conveyed: Education is missing the boat by not taking advantage of the love affair between our kids and technology. Personal Panic I was a young superintendent on Long Island, N.Y., when, in 1978, I bought the first set of Commodore PET computers for our schools. You could play Space Invaders on it, but mostly you had to learn to program the darn thing to get it to do anything. High school courses focused primarily on learning programming language. Few could afford to buy a Commodore for home use and the power of the Internet had yet to be unleashed.
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