After reading the article by Bates and Poole (2003), it made me realize that how we choose technology for our schools is not always the best method.   I think the way technology is introduced in a classroom is because it is the technology that the teacher wants not the technology the teacher needs.  Bates and Poole’s use of the SECTIONS model as a framework for selecting and using technology is so simple yet effective.  It is one of those things you read and say to yourself, “Why didn’t I think of that?”  The first point in the  Bates and Poole model is Students.  This , I think, is the most important of the model.  They say that when choosing technology we should think of the students first and how this technology will affect them.  So often technology is acquired by a teacher or school that has very little impact on the students’s learning.  Technology is purchased because t is new, cool, and helpful to the teacher.  But if we step back and look at how this technology is to be used and can help the students, we may think twice in our purchase.  At our school, a teacher purchased a tablet and used the tablet to write on the notes that were projected on a screen.  The teacher thought this would be really cool and the students would find it interesting to watch him solve a Physics problem on the notes they were copying down.  Other teachers in our school got on the bandwagon and purchased them for their class.  They soon realized that the students were not impressed after the initial showing.  Probably because they did not get to use the technology. The teachers then realized that it did not give them as much freedom to move around the class as they thought and they had to face the screen and not the students.  To say there was some buyer’s remorse would be an understatement.  I think if they had gone through the SECTIONS model they may have made a more informed choice.  I know that I will definitely follow this model when looking for new technology in my classroom