I was just was turned onto the blog “Bionic Teaching” and I think it is great. I found the post  “Magic Bullets Don’t Exist” particularly interesting. In the post Tom Woodward works to dispel the myth that Technology is the panacea for what ails education in a point by point disputation of a TechLearning post.
The essential fact is that teaching is the key. Supporting teachers with professional development and lesson plans that indicate how to integrate technology into a lesson are the key to bringing technology into the classroom.

As a result PlansForUs is focused on integrating with a teachers lesson plan development workflow. The technology that sits behind this workflow is what improves the lesson planning experience. Teachers write lessons, PlansForUs expands the way that a teacher can access new ideas for that lesson.

It is about teaching, not technology. That is something that must be remembered if technology is ever to break out of its edutech echo chamber and into the mainstream. Thanks to Tom for elucidating this important distinction, I look forward to reading more.

by Tyler, CEO