It does us no good to make fantastic progress if we do not know how to live with it, if we cannot make good use of it, and if, in fact, our technology becomes nothing more than an expensive and complicated way of cultural disintegration.
Thomas Merton
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
How can we make good use of technology?
Dr. Ruben Puentedura provides a simple, but very effective model to think about how technology can be utilized for learning. The point made here is that technology has the power to transform; shifting learning from rote and recall to collaboration and creation.
Many models and frameworks, like the SAMR Model, have been created to help evaluate what technology should be selected and how it should be integrated. In my artifacts here, I highlight a few of them at work in educational contexts.