I am positively positive about the affect Common Core and the Essential Standards are having on technology.  I think the question is actually somewhat moot because we have no choice but to embrace technology and make it not just a separate entity that we teach occasionally.

“Everyone get our your laptop. We are going to have a technology lesson.”

But something that is simply integrated into what we do.  Technology is already part of our children’s lives.  While some of it may be relatively new to us…our students have never known a world without it.  My two year old soon will never know a time when the world wasn’t at his fingertips.  Just the other day he asked me a question to which I replied I didn’t know the answer and he said, “Google It.”  It has become part of our lingo and our life style.

The new objectives challenge teachers to find new and innovative ways for students to communicate, produce, research, etc.  But the truth is to our students they aren’t that new!  They know about may of them before we do because they are immersed in technology.

The way I look at it, whether Common Core affects technology or not, we have no choice but to embrace the changing world we live in…because the constant change is now the norm.