Translational - technology enables tasks from analog to digital

• Automation | teacher or student automates tasks using technology

• Consumption | student consumes digital media (video, text, images, etc.)

Transformational - substantive disruptions to the nature of the task, role of person performing task or impact of the task

• Production | students produce artifacts that document the learning process

• Contribution | digital artifacts that contribute to group's interdependent learning

Transcendent - substantive changes to task and agent, AND technology allows users to go above and beyond normal ranges of use

• Inquiry Design | technology enables a learning journey, guided by student agency and collaboration

• Social Entrepreneurship | generating knowledge that provides social value, contextual use of technology driven by students' authentic passion and need

Students utilize technology tools to automate and consume information digitally.

Interactive Presentation:  Prompt and Student Response

Student Explanations:  Audio Explanation Example and Interacting with Text Example

Desmos Math Examples 

• Steiner Point Project - students use the site to determine how to minimize the amount of cable needed to connect four islands

• Optimizing a Rectangle Under a Curve

Students utilize technology tools to produce artifacts of their learning.  The artifacts can then contribute to other peers during the learning process.

Visual Arts:  Portfolio (screencast only, no audio) with Video

Video Examples:  ES Weekly News, MS Science Motion Graphs, and HS Physics

Students collaborate on inquiry design to make a difference.  Their social entrepreneurship goal is to raise awareness about important non-profits and their causes by involving students and the community through the powerful medium of music.

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