{"id":29844,"date":"2023-11-19T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.kamiapp.com\/?p=29844"},"modified":"2024-03-06T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T03:00:59","slug":"leaning-into-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.kamiapp.com\/blog\/leaning-into-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaning Into Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Dr. Alica Thompson<\/span> | Former superintendent of Kansas\u2019 largest school district. She worked as an educator at Wichita Public School for 31 years and received a Doctorate in Educational Leadership. Her honors include a Leadership in Diversity Award and a Martin Luther King Education Award from the Kansas African American Museum. She\u2019s recognized for contributing to career and technical education by building pathways from kindergarten through to post-secondary education.<\/p> Mike Poore<\/span> | Former superintendent of Little Rock School District. He also served as superintendent of Bentonville Public Schools, Arkansas, and Sheridan School District, Denver, Colorado. He was recognized for enhancing post-secondary options for underserved students and was pivotal in obtaining a Ford NGL designation for Central Arkansas academies.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t The edtech revolution encompasses a shift from traditional teaching tools to digital technologies, such as tablets, interactive whiteboards, and online platforms. These tools have enhanced personalized learning, broadened resource access, and allowed real-time progress tracking.<\/p> Beyond providing educators with interactive, engaging, and time-saving tools, tech has helped to alleviate some of the contemporary challenges of education. For example, Dr. Thompson described how tech has addressed teacher shortages by allowing \u201cteachers to be in one location but deliver instruction across multiple campuses.\u201d She also emphasized the importance of tech in unique learning experiences for students, like \u201cworkplace shadowing” and the exploration of AI tools like ChatGPT for lesson planning and communication.<\/p>
Welcome back for the fourth installment of our blog series focusing on leadership and decision-making in schools. We invited Dr. Alicia Thompson and Mike Poore, two of the country’s leading educational experts and the former superintendents of major districts, to participate in our discussion on leaning into technology.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\tOur expert panel<\/h4>
Tech has already made a difference<\/h4>