A New Mindset for Digital Immigrants

As Murrieta Valley USD launches its blended learning initiative this June, one of the challenges we will face is the mindset of many of our administrators and teacher leaders who, as digital immigrants, are often wary of instructional technology.  Many remain resistant, whether out of fear or ignorance, and continue to thwart our efforts.   This backwards mindset is pervasive.  As I discovered while watching a video during my Leading Edge Certification for Administrators program, even colleges and universities can fall victim to this:

As the video aptly demonstrates, leaders who don't "get it" not only slow down progress, they can truly threaten it.

So how do we address this?  Hopefully our keynote speaker will go a long way toward influencing this necessary shift in thinking.  John Kuglin, senior technology consultant and retired associate dean from the University of Montana, will give our staff members a first hand experience with blended learning during his presentation.  My hope is that this will be a great opening to our week of training staff members to use our LMS to support blended learning experiences for our students.