Distractions vs mission driven
Wondering outloud how easy it is to get distracted as a technology director (CIO/CTO/whatever). Distracted from the educational mission of the district which it the pillar or roots of any technology plan. I’ve seen over the last 20 months important and sad events which cause leaders to veer to react or act. Sarbanes-Oxley, so loosely defined and rabid with rumors generated by vendors. Similarly for the Virginia Tech tragedy and vendors working the game to distract districts into spending time and effort to have notification systems which rarely reach the pentetration of a message directly to a human in real time that they say they can do except in the most affluent of metropolitan regions.
Were these in the mission and vision of the technology plan? What do you do to get back on track?
Filed under: Technology and Education | Tagged: ISTE, Leadership, mission, technology planning, vision
