AB #3

In 2015 Barbara Means, Linda Shear, Jeremy Roschelle wrote peer reviewed journal
titled Using Technology and Evidence to Promote Cultures of Educational Innovation for SRI
Education. SRI is a nonprofit organization focused on population-based research. Barbara
Means, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International. Linda
Shear is the director of international studies for SRI and has her A.B., in sociology from
Princeton University. Jeremy Roschelle is a doctor in psychology from UC Berkeley. In this
article the authors talk about the idea of integrative innovations and how they are seen all
around us and also why teachers should use this principle when using technological learning.
It’s an idea of you must first try something based of facts and manipulate it slightly to try and
improve. Luckily research has been done to test the most effective ways to use technology, so it
is just up to the teacher to tweak the system.
One chapter titled How Technology Can Improve Learning discusses the positive and
negative effects of technology use for education and is backed up by case studies. The authors
present the idea that in order for technology to truly improve the classroom you have to
manipulate its strong suits, this being personalization. If teachers just throw all of the information
online and hope students can navigate it and understand the concepts, then you are hindering
the class more than assisting it. Technology can be used in so many ways that teachers can
develop their own style and form. In the words of the authors, “True innovations in learning, we
argue, use technologies in ways that exemplify learning science principles and embed
technologies in broader, integrated interventions.”

Means, Barbra, et al. Using Technology and Evidence to Promote Cultures of Educational
Innovation: The Example of Science and Mathematics Education, pp. 1–6.,
www.sri.com/sites/default/files/publications/technology-and-evidence_0.pdf.

● “We would like to be sure that a proposed educational application of technology is based
on good science about learning processes”
● “To improve students’ academic learning, we prefer to test integrated interventions that
align these factors, rather than trying to isolate the impact of a new technology alone.”
● “True innovations in learning, we argue, use technologies in ways that exemplify learning
science principles and embed technologies in broader, integrated interventions.”
This is a very informative journal based on many years of research compiled to give a future
plan for education using technology. This is a very good article to find information for a counter
argument for benefits for technology in a classroom.