Schools Turn to In-House Experts for Tech Training

With time constraints and tight budgets, schools rely on resident techies to train teachers.

November 8, 2011 RSS Feed Print

District-led training doesn't address technology at the pace it is changing, so teachers need to build a community of like–minded educators to turn to when tech questions inevitably arise, Nussbaum-Beach says.

"It used to be, study hard because what you know matters. Then it was, it isn't what you know, it's who you know,'" she says. "Now it's, do you know what who you know knows?"

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