RIck Stiles-Oldring's List: Teaching with IWBs

I think too often I fall into looking at these tools and wonder what they can  add to our classrooms and our teaching when the real question is how can our  classrooms and teaching add capacity to the tools. As he points out, we reframed  education with the advent of the book; we need to reframe it once again with the  advent of a networked, inter-connected medium that creates incredible new  affordances for learning. He writes:

While this is not a post on where the lever is, I’ve been arguing for a while  now that not much of this is going to change until the stakeholders, in this  case parents, take it upon themselves to demand something new. Something more  relevant. But the only way that parents are going to DEMAND access is if they  see that not simply as a way for kids to get a computer but to see connections  online as a way to a better future, a way to help thier kids become more  educated, better learners than by books and paper alone. Unfortunately, we’re  losing the media war on this one right now. Feeling like a broken record, but we  need to do a better job of making this case beyond our own still small, nascent  network.