McKenzie

=Jamie McKenzie=

Jamie McKenzie

Jamie has been a teacher, principal, and a superintendent. Then made the move to director of libraries, media, and technology. Currently he is an international speaker, writer, and technology consultant. His writings and presentations relate to raising student achievement incorporating more than just the Core Standards. His plan involves skills for teachers to inspire, challenge, and the providing opportunities for visualization and critical thinking skills to grow. His plan for students involves them committing to hard work, not give up, challenge issues, dream, and be creative.

His website from now on or fno is neat and easy to navigate. He provides many articles and presentation overviews that are very enlightening and opinionated.

He doesn’t care for the abilities of the IPad, but believes is can enhance student achievement, sometimes. He likes the interactive eBooks because they allow students to highlight, add notes, and look up characters, places, or events. He believes this will enhance comprehension and deepen understanding.

He has a plan to teach adults about the new technologies. I agree and like that his plan provides [|extensive professional development] for teachers, a purposeful technology plan, and student success. He also had a plan for the professional development to be continual. The plan for adults uses the same strategies as with students, make it revolve around something that interests them or give the adult learners time to research to solve a person problem with support or a team problem with a real team.

Jamie will help school districts weigh the benefits of certain technologies and their success with student achievement. He has advice for districts and principals that need and are ready for change, but just can’t get started. Many of his ideas overlap and his presentations combine principal, teachers, and students strategies. I like the big picture ideas he has.

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