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Technology Leadership – Comprehensive Examination Alberto Guia Lamar University

As I look back over the past 17 months or so I begin to wonder did I do the right thing? Did I make the right choice in regards to my degree in Educational Technology Leadership rather than Administration? This though is now even more relevant to me today since I was just released from my position on my campus as the school computer teacher and technology leader. Through all this looking and the recent bad news I think I did. I think our students need technology, more than ever, and the education system needs leaders who are trained in this field to help guide the student, the teachers, and the administration into the 21st Century, even though they don’t yet realize it themselves. **Career and Leadership Goal** To career, leadership and me goals, are a hard concept to wrap my head around. It may sound like a very simple concept, what do I want to do with my work and how do I want to help others along the way? But thinking ahead I have several things I want to do with my career in the education field as well as options and idea for outside of it. Within the education field my career and leadership goals are very simple, in fact I think too simple, I want to help students and teachers better understand technology and get them to realize that with technology everyone’s life’s will be easier and full of more opportunities. “The technologies that benefit young children the greatest are those that are interactive and allow the child to develop their curiosity, problem solving and independent thinking skills.” (Perry) I think that technology makes the classroom more interactive for students, thus allowing them to become more involved in the lesson and in turn allowing them to better retain and synthesis the information. Without technology savvy teachers and more importantly technology savvy leaders those experiences that our students need and quite frankly deserve will never happen. As the technology leader on the campus it will be my job to better equip the staff and administrators on how to integrate technology successfully in to the classroom.

**References** Perry, B. (n.d.). Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom. //Teaching Resources, Children's Book Recommendations, and Student Activities | Scholastic.com//. Retrieved October 10, 2010, from http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/bruceperry/using_technology.htm