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send science teachers an article about using computerized probes to analyze motion.

Ask team, grade-level, or subject-area teachers to contribute a report on technology projects for a specific month

20-minute Common Technology sessions for teachers in the school lab and teach the most commonly used features of various technologies such as whiteboards or digital cameras.

Encourage team interdisciplinary projects to have a strong technology component.

improve student learning by using higher-level thinking activities based on technology.

lesson plans that integrate technology.

Develop a technology mentor program so that students can provide technical assistance to their teachers as the instructors develop technology-infused learning.

This learning fair fair is very effective in helping the public understand how students learn with technology.

by showcasing student projects.

posters, digital pictures, PowerPoint presentations, and digital movies

10 minutes during each faculty meeting

Focus the school Web site on technology-infused learning in various subject areas.

take digital pictures of student learning that involves technology.

Show technology-generated student work at the school entrance.

Here are numerous practical strategies for achieving a culture in which students can be more engaged in their learning, have multiple means of accessing accessing and demonstrating that learning, and have varied assessments through technology.

Here are numerous practical strategies for achieving a culture in which students can be more engaged in their learning, have multiple means of accessing and demonstrating that learning, and have varied assessments through technology.

We tell them our answers before they’ve asked the questions. We drill them and test them and tell them they’ve failed if they don’t regurgitate back our lectures as lessons learned. That is a system built for the industrial age, for the assembly line, stamping out everything the same: students as widgets, all the same.

Google, he said, is looking for “non-routine problem-solving skills.”

“In the real world,” he said, “the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean glean from the free market.”

We must stop our culture of standardized testing and standardized teaching

We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every student giving the same answer – to a process, in which every student looks for new answers. Life is a beta.

The school becomes not a factory but an incubator.