Disruptive innovation

This is an interesting discussion that keeps coming up. Will techology and its tools change the way we teach, or just put a more modern twist on it? Our technology (Who's title is really Learnign rEsources Consultant) challenges the excitement over SMART boards. She is excited by them and what she sees many teachers doing with them, but she is afraid that they also influencing us back to teach directed instruction. The teacher is at the front directing students learning, rather than encouraging them to pursue their own self-selected goals. Reminds of Richardson's and Glogowski's thoughts on assigned blogging in a previous post.