How do educators choose between the many technology visions set before us? How do we separate the unimportant pebbles from the big rocks...the main things that help us effectively transfer to our students, new forms of in-depth learning?

Join our MidLink editors as they seek to identify the elemental tools that move student learning past basic knowledge to profound learning.

"The conversation about technology in schools is trapped in the wrong subject. The talk is all about "does the technology work" as a fix for the old. It ought to be about developing and choosing between visions of how this immensely powerful technology can support the invention of powerful new forms of learning to serve levels of expectation higher than anything imagined in the past."                            

                                              ~ Seymour Papert

A quality collaborative project is about much more than students looking through endless Internet links on their way to just restating old information. Engaging projects push student thinking by challenging them to create new information. Learners are exposed to a larger view of the world and sometimes even acquire a new vision of themselves along the way.

Our MidLink editors have created a rubric that you can use to evaluate your projects to see if you are including as many of the Big Rocks of quality project work as possible. To access the rubric, click on the graphic below: