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ON THE PATH

What is Your Relationship

with Technology?

James Wantz, DTM

“I hate the way Pathways is forcing me to use the resources and online tutorials, where to find the
computer. I don’t want to. I hate it!” email address for Level completions. I do this so
“Why does everything have to be done on they will get past the hurdles and see the beauty

the computer? I don’t get it. Why are we forced of Pathways. I’ve been working with the belief
to do this? I don’t think I will be able to do the that Pathways is the hurdle, that the program
Pathways.” itself is the problem.
“I don’t think my club will survive the switch Nope. It is the computer—not Pathways—

to Pathways. No one in my club uses a computer— that is making adoption of the new program so
and they don’t want to!” difficult. There are people who refuse to use the
“Pathways is destroying Toastmasters!” computer, who have never used the computer,
Every single statement above was said to me at and who see no reason to use a computer or

recent Pathways trainings. It
is clear that there is a HUGE
hurdle preventing some
members, and even some

clubs, from Toastmasters’
new educational program,
Pathways.
But it isn’t Pathways itself.

Nope, it is the computer
(or more specifically,
technology).
I work to help members

navigate Pathways: how to
get the interface to do what
they want it to do, where
to find all the evaluation

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