Technology will be used in a way to help students master content, collaborate with peers,

and create products as evidence of their learning. In order to do this, schools and districts must
support teachers with consistent access and training to current instructional technology methods.
Teachers have a professional responsibility to seek out tools which foster student engagement,
authenticity, and creativity. Along with offering a project-based learning atmosphere, teachers
must also model and teach digital citizen ship and responsibility (ISTE, 2014).
Creighton suggested that most classroom practices focus on teachers imparting
knowledge on students who have the job of accepting said knowledge and giving it back on
standardized tests (2003). This much change to incorporate a more constructivist philosophy in
which students produce things to display their knowledge. Technology has the ability to help
teacher as they shift classroom structure to one of more student-centered, problem-based learning
(2003).
In order for teachers to be fluent in a technologically-infused, constructivist approach,
they need to Engage in professional growth and leadership (ISTE, 2014). Teachers must not
only develop lifelong learners, they must also model that lifestyle. Development of both attitude
and skills is a necessary component to creating lifelong learners (Helterbran, 2005). Teachers
need to move away from the idea of dissemination of knowledge and focus on the skills students
will use to attain knowledge on their own. It is a two-way process for teachers as they hone skills
and attitudes in their own life and offer a chance for students to do the same in the classroom.
While teachers need to develop skills, schools need to offer them a realistic atmosphere
in which they can do so. Professional development needs to be done in such a way as to allow
teachers time to practice and receive feedback on those skills (Creighton, 2003). Schools should
support teachers in much the same way that teachers are expected to support students.
Education is a cycle. Teachers were once, and always, students. The cyclical nature of
learning necessitates students, teachers, and administration constantly partake in modeling proper
learning behaviors. Technologys part is to connect these groups, blurring lines of these roles so
we can all learn from each other. In this way can we model effectively the advantages of
becoming lifelong learners.

References
Creighton, T. (2003). The principal as technology leader. Corwin Press: Thousand Oaks, CA.
Helterbran, V. R. (2005). Lifelong or School-long Learning. Clearing House, 78(6), 261-263.
International Society for Technology in Education. 2007. ISTE standards: Teachers.
http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/20-14_ISTE_Standards-T_PDF.pdf