Embedded Files
"It can be argued that while the “Tell and Practice” pedagogical model may have served students in the industrial and postindustrial ages, this model is woefully insufficient to prepare the current generation of students for future success in the digital age. The primary objective of Disruptive Classroom Technologies: A Framework for Innovation in Education is to provide learning systems with a common and actionable language for implementing and measuring the impact of innovative teaching and learning practices with readily available technologies.
The T3 Framework for Innovation in education provides a much-needed pathway forward that is grounded in sound research and theory, and promotes educational technology uses that accelerate student learning by helping to make student thinking and learning visible, actionable, and perhaps more importantly, contributive.
If evidence-based practices matter, then implementing evidence-based practices matters more. Learning systems can transcend the status quo of low-impact technology use by disrupting the current trajectory with evidence-based, innovative practices that are aligned with the Visible Learning Model.
The strategies in the T3 Framework are both aligned with Visible Learning and scaffold the process of implementing disruptively innovative pedagogies that offer highly reliable pathways for learning organizations to build collective efficacy.
Such a vision will help ensure that today’s students are fully prepared to masterfully address whatever learning challenges their present or future may hold. Arguably, that matters most of all."
Dr. Sonny Magana
"Sonny Magana has made a significant contribution to innovation in education with his important book, Disruptive Classroom Technologies, and the T3 Framework. There have been 161 meta-analyses on various aspects of computers in education – from 10,226 studies, and the average effect is d =.34 – and this effect has not changed over the past 50 years despite phenomenal changes in the technology. A major reason for this lack of impact is most technological interventions do not change the dominant “tell and practice” teaching model. Moving beyond translation and transforming current practice to transcendent uses of technology is clearly where we should go. We need to build collaborative communities of students solving problems, explaining to others (regardless of ability) and using the social media aspects of technology to change classroom conversations from monologue to dialogue, increasing student impact questions, and allowing errors to be stated and dealt with – this can be so transcendental. This is the core of Magana’s claims, and indeed this is how we’ll see technology really make the difference we’re after!" John Hattie
"The T3 Framework is a brilliant breakthrough in our understanding and use of technology for learning. Sonny Magana clearly portrays the nature and difference between translational, transformational, and transcendent use of technology. The identification of transcendent use is itself an innovation. On top of all this he shows us how to navigate through the T3 system with guiding questions, prompts, and rubrics. For those of us working on the frontier of deep learning Disruptive Classroom Technologies, and the T3 Framework is a much needed gift." Michael Fullan
“Sonny Magana is a visionary leader regarding what education can be if we truly embrace the potential of technology. Unfortunately, the bright promise of technology is still in the distance, somewhere on the horizon. If one views schools and schooling through the lens of Magana’s framework, though, that horizon can become clearer, more attainable, and more inspirational.” Robert Marzano
"Fresh, innovative, and revolutionary, Magana’s T3 Framework promises to challenge the status quo and invite disruptive practices in educational technology. Enhancing social entrepreneurship with technology, as the final stage of Magana’s framework for technology use in education, is a powerful proposal and a compelling vision worth pursuing by all educators." Yong Zhao, Ph.D.
"Sonny Magana’s T3 Framework will provide schools and districts with the planning tools needed to go beyond the “$1,000 pencil.” His concept of technology as a disruptive force is exactly how we should be thinking about this historic moment of redesigning the culture of learning. Sonny’s book is filled with powerful stories and thoughtful questions that will inspire and empower educators to improve learning. Moreover, he has provided us with a framework for implementation with detail that simply has not existed with earlier models. I have known Sonny for twenty years. His wisdom comes from his incredible passion as an educator, school administrator and now as a researcher." Alan November
Page updated
Report abuse