Technology has opened the doors to an immediate global exchange of educational research and instructional practice. By the use of digitial tools made available to society, information from top scholars, top level professionals, and experts in the educational field can be readily available to everyone. Subscribing to blogs, using twitter, and so on, written by established educational scholars and leaders gives people like me, a District Administrator in rural Wisconsin on a limited financial budget and with limited time, access to some of the great minds in education. By using the tools of social media, I can then comprehend information that I would in no way shape or form have access to or even know if it existed.
The same goes with professional and non-certified staff. Teachers can have access to a large amount of instructional and curricular information. Food Service can share and obtain information on sanitation, worker efficiency and recipes kids like. Transportation can obtain information on school bus maintenance to dealing with student behavior on the buses. Paraprofessionals can obtain educational inforamtion and guidance.
Using the digital tools available in social media through technology give people more information, and a broader scope of their position and role within a school. By having immediate access to other people and their thoughts, if utilize through practice, will lead to a better functioning school. As adults we must understand that learning never ends. Using the information through social media and applying it to our school district will lead to better productivity and a better result, which is the academic, physical, psychological and social education of our children.
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