Michigan school aims for ‘transcendent’ stage of technology use

Originally published at educationdive.com According to the T3 framework, ‘transcendent’ is the third and final stage of good ed tech use. Gaylord Community Schools in northern Michigan had a bad experience with online learning. When it first brought new technology Continue Reading

Education Book Spotlight: Disruptive Classroom Technologies

Book Review by Dr. Monica Burns There are a handful of frameworks for thinking about technology integration in the classroom. You’ve probably spent some time examining SAMR and TPACK during discussions on how to make the most of digital tools Continue Reading

Complementing PD WIth Classroom Coaching

  The beginning of the new school year starts another cycle of learning and growth for students. Just as importantly, this time marks a new cycle of professional growth and development for classroom teachers; but will the growth that educators Continue Reading

Check Your Biases at the Door

There is an awful lot of fear-mongering going on all around us these days. Depending on our biases, our reactions to frightening stimuli can run the gamut from thoughtful repose, to hand-wringing, to channeling Chicken Little and echoing claims we Continue Reading

Sonny Magana in The Future of Everything

“If we continue along our current trajectory, students in future classrooms will sit in front of computers passively absorbing information transmitted by a teaching robot. Future classrooms will simply reproduce in a digital realm what’s currently being done in the Continue Reading