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The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent  characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed  (i.e.reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra,  2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption,  adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of  meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and  the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells.

Kids learn from teachers, peers, and the physical environment.  Video about flexible, connected, adaptive spaces and furnishings designed with adolescents' physicality and 21st century learning in mind.

"As school boards address the overall challenge of social media use within schools, they should focus on the reality that the impact no longer lies only on the individual and local schools. Social networks include students and teachers all over the world and, therefore, teaching and coaching on digital literacy for teachers and students is where the focus should rest. Knowing how to build successful communities of learning and how to integrate social connectivity within a learning environment is a much more needed outcome than finding a way to control and monitor specific users and content."

According to TLE team member Owen Milne, this site is "the go-to for understanding the ongoing relationship between pedagogy-space-technology as it relates to designing and managing active learning environments."

Good video to show kids about how a demonstration-based environment is different from a traditional environment.

Beyond differentiation: blended learning to use technology for learning. New teaching environment.

Form followed function at school in Minneapolis based on students doing real work, feeling welcome in learning environments.

Subtitled "Designing for the Future of Learning."  About school design, includes Noble High School (ME) plans and photos.

Riverdale is applying "design thinking" to its teaching and learning environments... Check out the links to Ideo and to Design Thinking for Educators. Note: The October conference is being moved to mid-winter, to align with teachers' needs.

A profoundly insightful articulation of how and why education must change now.