Digital learners are hungry to use technology in school. And many schools are responding by delivering cutting-edge equipment to all teachers and students and infusing this technology into instruction. This is all well and good. But as evaluators with the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, the authors have observed several major…

Describes a social-constructivist model of professional development arising from a collaboration between Southwest Texas State University's education department and New Braunfels (Texas) Independent School District. Teachers learn technology integration techniques from an instructionally strong "first-generation" of teachers trained at a…

To explore how media analysis and production can be integrated into existing curricula, Clark University developed the Re-Visioning Project for secondary teachers. A humanities-centered institute was based on rich professional-development experiences, stressing learning and teaching activities, analysis of practice, and development of shared…