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Yes, technology plays an important role in today’s classrooms. While the pace of change has accelerated, however, one constant remains the same: Good teachers are critical to delivering an effective learning experience

Technology can play a critical role—but only when the technology supports the approach, the teaching philosophy and the goals that educators, students and families have agreed matters the most.

Helping kids develop strategies like self-regulation will allow them to use their own initiative and to direct themselves — without adult supervision.

it’s important to develop kids’ learning strategies so they stay on topic while they use these tools.

Teach kids to set an attainable goal — not one that’s out of reach.

Failures are worth it when the goal is bigger than the task. Evan may have failed at this wristband idea, but he succeeded in learning

First, great teachers tended to set big goals

they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.

“single best idea for reforming K-12 education”.

Root cause: factory model of management

The goal needs to shift from one of making a system that teaches children a curriculum more efficiently to one of making the system more effective by inspiring lifelong learning in students, so that they are able to have full and productive lives in a rapidly shifting economy.

Action Step 1: Stop thinking technology first.

Action Step 2: Give students authentic choice in how they will demonstrate their learning.

Action Step 3: Help students seek feedback from other students, other educators, and experts in the field.