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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Contents:
About the Authors
Foreword
Introduction: Framing the Challenge
Chapter 1: Seeking a New Approach
Chapter 2: Introducing the 4 Shifts Protocol
Chapter 3: Redesigning Elementary School Lessons and Units
Chapter 4: Redesigning Secondary Lessons and Units
Chapter 5: Designing From Standards
Chapter 6: Implementing the Protocol -- Tips, Strategies, and Other Suggestions
Epilogue: Staying in Touch
References and Resources

Books in the Solutions for Creating the Learning Spaces Students Deserve series:

• Embracing a Culture of Joy
• Creating a Culture of Feedback
• Reimagining Literacy Through Global Collaboration
• Making Learning Flow
• Different Schools for a Different World
• Personalizing Learning Through Voice and Choice
• Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning

Scott McLeod, an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Colorado Denver, is widely recognized as one of the United States' leading experts in preK-12 school technology leadership. He is the founding director of the University Council for Educational Administration's Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education, the only university center in the United States dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators. He is the co-creator of the Did You Know? (Shift Happens) video series and the 4 Shifts technology integration discussion protocol.

Scott has worked with hundreds of schools, districts, universities, and other organizations and has received numerous awards for his technology leadership work, including the 2016 Award for Outstanding Leadership from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). In 2015, he was one of three finalists to be the director of the Iowa Department of Education. In 2011, he was a visiting faculty fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Scott was one of the pivotal figures in Iowa's grassroots one-to-one computing movement, which has resulted in more than 220 school districts providing their students with powerful learning devices, and he founded the annual Iowa 1:1 Institute and EdCampIowa.

Scott blogs regularly about technology leadership and shares numerous resources through his Digital Leadership Daily SMS service, Twitter account, blog, and other information channels. He has written over 170 articles and other publications, coauthored the book Different Schools for a Different World, and coedited What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media.

To learn more about Scott's work, visit his blog, Dangerously Irrelevant (dangerouslyirrelevant.org), or follow @mcleod on Twitter.

Julie Graber is an instructional technology consultant on a technology innovation team for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency in Iowa, where she supports educators with effective teaching, learning, leading, and technology practices. She is a passionate educator who is most interested in seeing teachers and administrators improve authentic learning opportunities for students. Her many areas of expertise include deeper thinking with technology, authentic learning, curriculum design, and performance tasks and assessments. Prior to Julie being a teaching, learning, and technology consultant, she spent thirteen years as a technology coordinator and business and computer teacher.

Julie is an Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) coach and has coached elementary, middle, and high school teams of teachers on how to use the framework in order to increase the level of intellectual demand as well as the authenticity of the work that students are asked to do. She has served on several state leadership teams, including the North Central Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Hub Advisory Board and the Design Team for the Iowa Competency-Based Education Collaborative, and has provided guidance for schools to increase STEM education in their classrooms and move them toward competency-based and personalized learning. Julie is certified in the Instructional Practices Inventory and provides training for Defined STEM, a K-12 curriculum resource with engaging project-based lessons on real-world scenarios. Julie is the co-creator of the 4 Shifts discussion protocol and a regular local, state, and national presenter focusing on authentic work and student-centered, personalized, and project-based learning.

To learn more about Julie's work, follow @jgraber on Twitter.