Sammie Williams

My Education Technology Philosophy is that children are similar to archery arrows carefully placed into the bowstring of a bow and needing only to be aimed in the right direction. In the archery process, aiming can be either instinctive or by actual sight. The instinctive method involves allowing your experience and past knowledge to guide your aim. The sight method calls for you to learn to make adjustments to compensate for distance and varied targets and is much easier to learn. The overall concept lines up with the idea that sometimes it is easier to teach a new process than it is to unlearn an old habit. Using a bow and arrow for the first time requires learning new techniques and strategies to ensure we are able to hit our target goal. I believe that in order for today’s educational system to offer our students the very best opportunity to compete in a global economic system, as teachers we have to be willing to not only learn today’s technologies, but to master tomorrow mornings technologies as well. To help you understand me a little bit more, I am a storyteller by nature and it should be evident in my writing. That said, pick up your bow of imagination and creativity and let us get started!
In today’s fast paced world of technological developments, it is becoming even more of an imperative that teachers prepare ourselves to be able to equip students not only for today, but the ever-evolving future. I say ever-evolving future in recalling how in times past when students were prepared for a more futuristic philosophy of change. The idea that change was coming several years or months in the future. Today’s technological advances are permeated minute-by-minute and constant upgrades in technologies that are being released everyday. Today’s technology is almost obsolete as soon as it is released, therefore it reasons that what works today in technology can and will be replaced tomorrow, or the next week, or month.

My personal Educational Technology Philosophy is centered on the TPACK model of Pedagogical Content Knowledge. It has become imperative for teachers to identify possible areas to integrate tec