Will the implementation of the Common Core allow for more use of technology or will it be just too much for teachers to add more to their already full teaching plate? To be honest, I think it is just too early to ask this question. The rolling out of the Common Core curriculum last year was, to say the least, a bit of a disaster. Districts were not ready, teachers were not fully trained, materials were not available (and still aren’t), and most importantly, students (particularly middle school students) were thrown into a curriculum they had not been prepared for. Having survived my first year teaching the Common Core curriculum, I now have only a basic understanding of what the curriculum is asking for and a beginning knowledge of how to implement it. At the heart of the curriculum we are asking students to think differently about what they are learning and to take a more 21^st Century approach to their learning. The collaborative nature of the curriculum, the push towards group work and higher order thinking skills, and the move to authentic assessments leads me to believe the implementation of the Common Core will lead to the use of more technology, but the first year real world application of the curriculum has left me feeling more overwhelmed than inspired. I have been told that it can take up to 5 years for a teacher to fully understand a new curriculum. Now that I am in my second year of teaching the Common Core I find that I am still searching for what the curriculum is expecting of me, what my students should know and be able to do, and most frustrating, what materials can I use to help implement this complex and challenging curriculum. I would like to think that the implementation of the Common Core will lead to the use of more technology but I’m afraid the jury is going to be out on this one for just a bit longer.