Stephanie Morrison

Providence, Rhode Island Area United States

ELA Teacher Leader at Providence School Department

Blended learning is the latest trend in education, but I've been "blending" technology into my English Language Arts classroom for more than 10 years. Several years ago, I participated in a professional development in the summer called "RI Teachers and Technology Institute" which was sponsored by the RI Department of Education. Although I had been using MS Word and other programs in the classroom, I hadn't really thought of designing an entire curriculum using technology. From the beginning, RITTI's goal was not to just teach us the technology, but to use it as a TOOL towards project based learning and authentic assessment .As the years have passed, I have increasingly integrated tech int...