Tech initiatives and the tidal wave

Think about a teacher over the course of his/her career. They'll have seen a whole bunch of fads and policy initiatives come and go, and they might think that they can also just "outlast" computers. But it's different. Technology is a tidal wave -- it's coming and it's unstoppable. What else is a tidal wave? Demographics...increasing transience...legal worries.... Anyway, the point is, how can we get teachers to pay attention the these unavoidable changes and address them head-on, have to most productive possible response to them? People don't like to change (hence the outlast strategy); how can we get them to recognize the situations that call for change and then to follow through? For some reason I don't think the "public policy initiative" is the way to go.