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I recently wrapped up two rounds of a research study and a series of articles in collaboration with John Lee that focused on the integration of an educational blog as the primary instructional tool in a high school U.S. history classroom.  It was apparent to me that the teachers I worked with in professional development workshops or met at professional conferences often reserved creative and engaging uses of technology for their brightest students.  Lower level students would have few…

Dr. McKenna drew attention to the "uneasy transitions" involving technological innovations.

He traced several trends:

1. drive towards intertextuality

2. tech invites nonlineraity (e.g. website front page and text book page)

3. tech extends the limits of print (e.g. periodic table)

4. tech invites multimodality (e.g. harry potter effect)

5. tech facilitates "encyclopedic drive" (e.g. wikipedia)

6. tech challenges trad epistemology (e.g co-construction of…