Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning: (A Quick Guide to Educational Technology Integration and Digital Learning Spaces)

Reshape educational technology integration in classrooms to build truly transformative learning spaces. This concise, reader-friendly guide outlines a clear approach for properly and skillfully using digital learning tools to promote deeper, personalized learning across subjects and grade levels. The authors impart tips and strategies for avoiding common missteps, overcoming implementation challenges, and redesigning instruction that is both meaningful and engaging.

This quick guide will help you integrate educational technology in the classroom and create digital learning spaces:

  • Consider the challenge educators face when integrating technology in the classroom and current technology-integration frameworks, such as SAMR, RAT, and TPACK.
  • Discover how to create a successful digital learning space or environment that encourages academic growth.
  • Explore the authors' 4 Shifts Protocol (formerly trudacot), which focuses on the four big shifts that schools are making toward (1) deeper thinking and learning, (2) authentic work, (3) student agency and personalized learning, and (4) technology infusion.
  • Learn how the 4 Shifts Protocol can help teachers adjust and improve their current lessons and activities.
  • Study specific scenarios on how to utilize the 4 Shifts Protocol across multiple subjects and grade levels.

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Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning: (A Quick Guide to Educational Technology Integration and Digital Learning Spaces)

Reshape educational technology integration in classrooms to build truly transformative learning spaces. This concise, reader-friendly guide outlines a clear approach for properly and skillfully using digital learning tools to promote deeper, personalized learning across subjects and grade levels. The authors impart tips and strategies for avoiding common missteps, overcoming implementation challenges, and redesigning instruction that is both meaningful and engaging.

This quick guide will help you integrate educational technology in the classroom and create digital learning spaces:

  • Consider the challenge educators face when integrating technology in the classroom and current technology-integration frameworks, such as SAMR, RAT, and TPACK.
  • Discover how to create a successful digital learning space or environment that encourages academic growth.
  • Explore the authors' 4 Shifts Protocol (formerly trudacot), which focuses on the four big shifts that schools are making toward (1) deeper thinking and learning, (2) authentic work, (3) student agency and personalized learning, and (4) technology infusion.
  • Learn how the 4 Shifts Protocol can help teachers adjust and improve their current lessons and activities.
  • Study specific scenarios on how to utilize the 4 Shifts Protocol across multiple subjects and grade levels.

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Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning: (A Quick Guide to Educational Technology Integration and Digital Learning Spaces)

Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning: (A Quick Guide to Educational Technology Integration and Digital Learning Spaces)

Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning: (A Quick Guide to Educational Technology Integration and Digital Learning Spaces)

Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning: (A Quick Guide to Educational Technology Integration and Digital Learning Spaces)

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Overview

Reshape educational technology integration in classrooms to build truly transformative learning spaces. This concise, reader-friendly guide outlines a clear approach for properly and skillfully using digital learning tools to promote deeper, personalized learning across subjects and grade levels. The authors impart tips and strategies for avoiding common missteps, overcoming implementation challenges, and redesigning instruction that is both meaningful and engaging.

This quick guide will help you integrate educational technology in the classroom and create digital learning spaces:

  • Consider the challenge educators face when integrating technology in the classroom and current technology-integration frameworks, such as SAMR, RAT, and TPACK.
  • Discover how to create a successful digital learning space or environment that encourages academic growth.
  • Explore the authors' 4 Shifts Protocol (formerly trudacot), which focuses on the four big shifts that schools are making toward (1) deeper thinking and learning, (2) authentic work, (3) student agency and personalized learning, and (4) technology infusion.
  • Learn how the 4 Shifts Protocol can help teachers adjust and improve their current lessons and activities.
  • Study specific scenarios on how to utilize the 4 Shifts Protocol across multiple subjects and grade levels.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781943874088
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Publication date: 09/21/2018
Series: Solutions for Creating the Learning Spaces Students Deserve
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

About the Authors ix

Foreword xi

Introduction: Framing the Challenge 1

The Benefits of Technology 2

About This Book 3

Chapter 1 Seeking a New Approach 5

Current Frameworks 5

Limitations of Current Frameworks 9

Chapter 2 Introducing the 4 Shifts Protocol 11

The Search for the Ideal Approach 11

The 4 Shifts Protocol 12

Chapter 3 Redesigning Elementary School Lessons and Unit 21

Elementary School Social Studies 21

Mystery Skype 21

The Redesign 22

Elementary School English Language Arts 25

Pumpkin Book Report 25

The Redesign 25

Elementary School Mathematics 27

The Treehouse 28

The Redesign 28

Chapter 4 Redesigning Secondary Lessons and Units 31

High School Life Science 31

Bacteria Poster 31

The Redesign 31

Middle School Health 33

Food Postcards 34

The Redesign 34

High School Physical Science 36

Sedimentary Rock 37

The Redesign 37

Chapter 5 Designing From Standards 41

Elementary School Social Studies 41

Promoting Change or the Status Quo 41

The Design 42

High School English Language Arts 45

Informative Text 45

The Design 45

Chapter 6 Implementing the Protocol-Techniques, Strategies, and Suggestions 51

Intentional Design 51

Structure Versus Winging It 52

A Set of Experiences Over Time 52

Professional Learning and Expectations 52

Mindset Shifts 53

Critical Interrogation 53

The Power of the Pivot 53

Avoidance of Judgment 54

Growth and Change Over Time 54

Student Involvement 54

Protocol Implementation With Fellow Educators 54

Use of the Protocol 55

The 4 Shifts Protocol Versus Project-Based Learning (PBL) 55

The 4 Shifts Protocol Is a Creative Commons Document 56

Epilogue: Staying in Touch 57

References and Resources 59

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