About

The Innovative Teaching with Technology project identifies, supports, and disseminates best practices for teaching with technology in the classroom. We hope to engage students' interest by developing and introducing materials and experiences that enable each individual student to make personal connections to STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math).

This project formalizes a professional development relationship between the Science Museum’s Learning Technologies Center and a cohort of K-8 educators in the metro region, to lay the groundwork for future projects that can disseminate best practices of these teachers to a broader audience.

The project will research and observe how students learn the skills, content and attitudes that are facilitated by innovative, technology-based activities that are planned and delivered without a “teaching to the test” focus.

In order to promote our Constructionist learning philosophy, we work with the following strategies:

• Model uses of computer technologies that encourage rather than replace direct interaction with the physical world and other human beings;
• Make in-depth learning opportunities available to young people who can benefit from these environments;
• Partner with inspired educators to determine how new technologies can further their work;
• Create and support forums for discussing sharing and critically analyzing the application of learning technologies.