Digital Learning Virtual Book Club Series: Intentional Tech by Derek Bruff
May 04, 2022 / Department of Digital Learning / Tags: Book Club, Ed Tech
Chalkboards and projectors are familiar tools for most college faculty, but when new technologies become available, instructors aren鈥檛 always sure how to integrate them into their teaching in meaningful ways. For faculty interested in supporting student learning, determining what鈥檚 possible and what鈥檚 useful can be challenging in the changing landscape of technology.
Arguing that teaching and learning goals should drive instructors鈥 technology use, not the other way around, Intentional Tech explores seven research-based principles for matching technology to pedagogy. Through stories of instructors who creatively and effectively use educational technology, author Derek Bruff approaches technology not by asking 鈥淗ow to?鈥 but by posing a more fundamental question: 鈥淲hy?鈥