Today’s global high-tech world requires instruction and assessment that
incorporate the latest social,learning, and neuroscience research on critical thinking, multi-tasking,
multimodal learning, collaboration,and engagement. Educators will learn from classroom footage
and lecture how to use technologically advanced tools that extend students’ thinking by serving
as a means to explore ideas, research questions, test hypotheses, compose thoughts, and
come to conclusions. Educators will learn to teach their students to use these tools as vehicles for
exploring rigorous academic concepts in authentic environments—i.e., in the world around them.
They will help their students become genuine innovators who will thrive in the 21st century culture
of collaboration. Less