{"id":96598,"date":"2026-02-20T22:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.einnews.com\/article\/894234461"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:02:19","slug":"high-school-tech-director-advises-ed-tech-skepticism-intentionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/high-school-tech-director-advises-ed-tech-skepticism-intentionality\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Tech Director Advises Ed-Tech Skepticism, Intentionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img data-opt-id=1433751953  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/6bfc520\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1302x633+0+51\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fb5%2Fa8%2Feaf7466f48c6b27ad229ded5482d%2Fscreenshot-2026-02-20-at-2-34-05-pm.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p> ORLANDO \u2014 Lisa Berghoff, director of instructional technology at Highland Park High School in Illinois, identifies with a label that might seem counterintuitive to her job title: tech-skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>At the annual Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) in January, Berghoff insisted that technology must prove its value by transforming the learning experience in ways that analog or face-to-face formats cannot. Most notably, she emphasized that the ultimate compass for any tool must be those who are thinking and learning in the classroom \u2014 students.<\/p>\n<p>This philosophy, she said, is deeply rooted in her 19 years as a special education teacher, where she learned that digital tools do not automatically provide accessible learning experiences. For example, she warned that simply using a Chromebook does not guarantee an accessible lesson and cautioned against \u201cthe click barrier\u201d \u2014 that is, assistive features that are too difficult for students to find or activate.<\/p>\n<p><span data-bsp-pv=\"4f8e492c-6f2f-390e-bc61-f176d3a37ab9\"><\/span><span data-bsp-pv=\"0000019c-7d28-d447-adde-ffacf5600000\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\"> <\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; , director of instructional <span class=\"match\">technology<\/span> at Highland Park High &#8230; <span class=\"match\">tech<\/span>-skeptical. At the annual Future of Education <span class=\"match\">Technology<\/span> &#8230; teachers in selecting <span class=\"match\">technology<\/span> for a specific activity &#8230; <span class=\"match\">tech<\/span> use and your decisions around using that particular <span class=\"match\">technology<\/span> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}