If you have any idea, could you drop me an email someday? By the way, I have taught in Japan, and may be in China soon on a project. I am an Ed tech PhD student at Indiana U Bloomington.

Good luck. Nice post.
Craig

Administrators can get caught up in our own excitement and push for quality tech use and in an attempt to be “tech-savvy” may take too much of what we say to heart, at the expense of recognizing quality learning when it happens.

A great part of your points is the focus on what learning experiences the students are having. After all, it isn’t about using technology, but rather about what learning is happening.

In that vein, then, administrators need to ask themselves whether they understand the possible answers to these questions, so that when they see old things happening in old ways, they can say to a teacher, “have you considered doing this or using (insert appropriate tech here) to enhance that learning?”

When we have administrators like that, we can make big steps forward in bringing learning into the 21st Century.