Having an effective Enterprise Architecture is not an option for school districts any longer. In the past I can understand why there would be a separate education plan and technology plan as technology was seen as a separate entity altogether. Computers were used in a different room, called the computer lab. Students rotated through the lab maybe once or twice a week. Computers were not seen as a vehicle to learning but as a fun extra activity. I can remember a time when computer lab was used as a reward or punishment depending on our classroom behavior. However, now computers play a completely differently role in education. Thankfully they are now in each classroom. Each school in our district is almost at 1:1. This changes everything in terms of an education plan. Technology absolutely needs to be embedded in the education plan in order for admin, teacher leaders and teachers to see how both technology and curriculum are to be taught together. If we have them living on both documents, learning will happen in tandem as well. If we have them living in separate documents instruction will continue to be separate and technology will not be seen as a vehicle but as still an isolated learning task.
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