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= All Technology Uses are NOT Equal: Project Headware NOT Hardware =

//Technology magnifies and makes visible all that works in our schools and all that needs to work better -// Bernajean Porter, 1990

Technology accelerates something! What is the SOMETHING being targeted in your schools? It takes more than purchase orders and staff development of the technical skills that launch 1:1 or white board technology initiatives to delivery specific worth-the-money results for ALL students! Accessing online for tools creates more choices for learning but doesn’t necessarily //Turn Up the H.E.A.T.// for benefits needed by a generation being prepared for a future that few know how to define. Here’s a BFO (Blinding Flash of the Obvious): Going from knowing facts to enduring understandings is not something that can be memorized – it needs to be rehearsed regularly with rigorous inquiry tasks, driving questions, authentic audiences, collaborative problem-solving tools, inventive thinking, and effective 21 Century communication skills. What if rather than trying to teach students problem solving, we actually encouraged them to take on problems that needed solving? Become wizards at the artful structuring of performance tasks engaging students in rigorous thinking along with communication technologies that purposefully builds deeper understandings of core curriculum concepts. Participants will practice coding online tool uses for HOT or NOT using three categories of technology uses for learning: Literacy, Adapting and Transforming. Groups will also experience applying high-yielding H.E.A.T. instructional strategies in order to purposefully elevate good ideas for learning tasks into GREAT ones. Come play a modern day “Extreme Make-Over" game developing engagingly, Xtra Xtra HOT uses of technology with kids as the winners!

**Session Handouts**

 * Literacy-Adapting-Transforming H.E.A.T. Spectrum *
 * Depth of Questions Spectrum
 * Designing Student Performance Tasks Template

//* The Literacy-Adapting-Transforming framework has been used since early 1990's as a planning, assessment and communication tool for schools to activate the potential of technology resources. The pedagogical differences described to distinguish L-A-T uses of technology embodies a field of instructional practices based on well-respected educators and research throughout time: Piaget, Bloom, Webb (DOK), Levin, A.C.O.T. Model, Beck/Riel, Wiggins, McKenzie, N.C.R.E.L.'s Engaged Learning Indicators, NETS•S, and AASL's 21st Century Skills.//

**BJP's Related Articles**

 * [[file:ISTE Tech Plan Article.pdf]]
 * [[file:BeyondWordsISTE.pdf]]
 * [[file:PorterStoryWorld.pdf]]
 * [[file:Tech4Learning DigiTales StoryKeepers.pdf]]
 * [[file:Questions Quiz.pdf]]