This initiative focuses on how educator professional learning must change to support deep implementation of Common Core standards, new assessments, and educator evaluation systems. Part of the transformation of professional learning is the use of technology to personalize and expand access to professional learning for all educators so they have the needed supports to implement the Common Core standards.

2. Technology can play a traditional role,
i.e. as delivery vehicles for
instructional lessons or in a
constructivist way as partners in the
learning process.

3. In a constructivist way, technology
helps the learner build more
personal interpretations of life in
her/his world. Technology is a
learning tool to learn with not
from. It makes the learner gather,
think, analyze, synthesize
information and construct meaning
with what technology presents

4. •Technology as tools to support knowledge
construction
1. For presenting learners’ ideas,
understandings and beliefs
2. For producing organized, multimedia
knowledge bases for learners
• Technology as information vehicles
for exploring knowledge to support
learning-by-constructing:
1. For accessing needed information
2. For comparing perspectives, beliefs and
world views

5. •Technology as context to support
learning by doing
1. for representing and simulating
meaningful real-world problems, situations
and contexts
2. for representing beliefs, perspectives,
arguments, and stories of others
3. For defining safe, controllable problem
space for student thinking

6. •Technology as a social medium to
support learning by conversing
1. For collaborating with others
2. For discussing, arguing, and building
consensus among members of the
community
3. For supporting discourse among
knowledge building communities

7. •Technology as intellectual partner
1. For helping learners to articulate and
represent what they know
2. For reflecting on what they have learned
and how they come to know it
3. For supporting learners’ internal
negotiations and meaning making
4. For constructing personal
representations of meaning for
supporting mindful thinking

8. Whether used from the traditional or
constructivist point of view, when used
effectively, research indicates that
technology not only “increases students’
learning, understanding, and achievement
but also augments, motivation to learn,
encourages collaborative learning and
supports the development of critical
thinking and problem-solving skills”
(Shacter and Fagnano, 1999)

9. Proper implementation of
technology in the classroom gives
students more “control of their
own learning and … tends to
move classrooms from teacher-
dominated environments to ones
that are more learner-centered
(Russel and Sorge, 1999)

10. Educational technology plays various roles.
Form the traditional point of view, it serves
as presenter of knowledge just like
teachers. It also serves as productivity
tool. With the internet, technology has
facilitated communication among people.
From the constructivist’s perspective,
educational technology is a meaningful
learning tools by serving as a learning
partner