Foreword by Robert J. Marzano
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Preface
Who Should Read This Book?
Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
Organization of This Book
PART I • INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. A Case for Disruptive Innovation in Education
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Managing Disruptive Transitions in Education
Principles of Effective Pedagogy
Principles of Effective Technology Integration
Summary
Chapter 2. The T3 Framework: A New Framework for Innovation in
Education
The Importance of Frameworks
Existing Frameworks and Their Usefulness
The T3 Framework
Summary
PART II • STAGES OF THE T3 FRAMEWORK
Chapter 3. T1: Translational Technology Use
Translational Technology Use Defined
T1.1: Automation and T1.2: Consumption
Summary
Chapter 4. T2: Transformational Technology Use
Transformational Technology Use Defined
T2.1: Production
T2.2: Contribution
Summary
Chapter 5. T3: Transcendent Technology Use
Transcendent Technology Use Defined
T3.1: Inquiry Design
T3.2: Social Entrepreneurship
Summary
PART III • PUTTING THE T3 FRAMEWORK TO USE
Chapter 6. Applying the T3 Framework
Using the T3 Framework for Self-Assessment, Goal Setting, and
Continuous Personal Growth
Using the T3 Framework for Teacher Evaluation
Using the T3 Framework for Professional and Organizational
Development
Summary
References
Index
Dr. Anthony J. “Sonny” Magana III is an award-winning educator,
best-selling author, and pioneering educational technology
researcher. Sonny is a highly sought-after leadership consultant
and instructional coach with more than thirty years’ experience
transforming learning systems around the world. The author of
numerous research studies and articles, Sonny’s first book,
Enhancing the Art and Science of Teaching with Technology,
co-authored with Dr. Robert J. Marzano, achieved international
acclaim.
A tireless advocate for transcending the status quo, Sonny founded
and served as Principal of Washington State’s first CyberSchool in
1996, a groundbreaking blended learning program that continues to
meet the needs of at-risk students in Washington. He is a recipient
of the prestigious Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award
and the Governor’s Commendation for Educational Excellence. An avid
musician, yoga practitioner, and beekeeper, Sonny holds a bachelor
of science degree from Stockton University, a master of education
degree from City University (where he was honored with the
Presidential Award for meritorious scholarship), an educational
administration endorsement, and a doctorate in educational
leadership from Seattle University.
"Sonny Magana has made a significant contribution to innovation in
education with his important book, Disruptive Classroom
Technologies, and the T3 Framework. There have been 161
meta-analyses on various aspects of computers in education – from
10,226 studies, and the average effect is d =.34 – and this effect
has not changed over the past 50 years despite phenomenal changes
in the technology. A major reason for this lack of impact is
most technological interventions do not change the dominant "tell
and practice" teaching model. Moving beyond translation and
transforming current practice to transcendent uses of technology is
clearly where we should go. We need to build collaborative
communities of students solving problems, explaining to others
(regardless of ability) and using the social media aspects of
technology to change classroom conversations from monologue to
dialogue, increasing student impact questions, and allowing errors
to be stated and dealt with – this can be so transcendental. This
is the core of Magana’s claims, and indeed this is how we’ll see
technology really make the difference we’re after!"
*John Hattie, Laureate Professor*
"The T3 Framework is a brilliant breakthrough in our understanding
and use of technology for learning. Sonny Magana clearly
portrays the nature and difference between translational,
transformational, and transcendent use of technology. The
identification of transcendent use is itself an innovation. On top
of all this he shows us how to navigate through the T3 system with
guiding questions, prompts, and rubrics. For those of us working on
the frontier of deep learning Disruptive Classroom Technologies,
and the T3 framework is a much needed gift."
*Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus*
"Fresh, innovative, and revolutionary, Magana′s T3 Framework
promises to challenge the status quo and invite disruptive
practices in educational technology. Enhancing social
entrepreneurship with technology, as the final stage of Magana’s
framework for technology use in education, is a powerful proposal
and a compelling vision worth pursuing by all educators."
*Yong Zhao, Ph.D., Foundation Distinguished Professor, co-author
Never Send a Human to Do a Machine′s Job: Correcting Top 5 Ed Tech
Mistakes*
"Sonny Magana’s T3 Framework will provide schools and districts
with the planning tools needed to go beyond the "$1,000
pencil". His concept of technology as a disruptive force is
exactly how we should be thinking about this historic moment of
redesigning the culture of learning. Sonny’s book is filled with
powerful stories and thoughtful questions that will inspire and
empower educators to improve learning. Moreover, he has provided us
with a framework for implementation with detail that simply has not
existed with earlier models. I have known Sonny for twenty
years. His wisdom comes from his incredible passion as an
educator, school administrator and now as a researcher."
*Alan November, Founder*
"Sonny Magana carefully analyses innovation in education and
adoption of technology through his T3 lens providing practical
tools and examples to assist us all. He draws on colorful,
helpful examples from music to the fall of the iron curtain to
illustrate his ideas and to highlight pathways from translational
through transformational and ultimately to transcendent technology
use. Disruptive Classroom Technologies exemplifies an "Innovate
Don′t Digitize" message and should encourage us all to progress
quickly beyond the nursery slopes of adoption to the highly
productive and exciting upper reaches of technology use for
education."
*Gavin Dykes, Program Director*
"What if...What if there were a framework to make tangible in a
very articulate, strategic, and actionable way what we have long
sought to implement: the student use of technologies to inspire
learning that matters? Dr. Magana has done it! Disruptive Classroom
Technologies validates your experience and then effortlessly and
exponentially moves you along the T3 continuum to transcendent
impact from the use of educational technology. A must read for
educational leaders at all levels. Magana helps us add value to our
investment in technology, and create educational systems of
limitless learning."
*Dr. Mary Wegner, Superintendent*
"Disruptive Classroom Technologies is a model for how to
effectively implement technology in a school. Dr. Magana’s writing
and practice demonstrate his unique combination of having a deep
understanding of effective pedagogical practice and cutting edge
knowledge about technology. The T3 framework that Dr. Magana
developed blends learning and technology together in an applicable
and effective manner. I have personally observed the power of
Sonny’s work in our own school district; Gaylord Community Schools
has embraced the T3 framework and as a result is a better place for
students to learn and staff to teach."
*Brian Pearson, Superintendent*
"In Disruptive Classroom Technologies, Sonny Magana brilliantly
defines the T3 Framework which serves as a "call to action" for all
education leaders to examine the role that technology has in
teaching and learning. As Sonny details, schools are technology
rich and innovation poor due to a constant pursuit of the latest
glitzy technology fad that often has limited additive value to
student achievement. As education leaders we must see beyond the
frenzy of the latest technology craze and evaluate the value-added
impact that technology resources have on teaching and learning. The
T3 Framework provides a structure for educators to evaluate
technology resources and to make education decisions that ensure we
are transforming and transcending our classrooms. Disruptive
Classroom Technologies is a must read for all educators!"
*Rick Oser, Principal*
"In Disruptive Classroom Technologies, Dr. Sonny Magana introduces
the T3 Framework, a tool was simple enough for our students and
staff to understand and begin to use immediately. Our staff and
students found the T3 Framework easy to grasp, yet once fully
implemented, it will effectively transform the discussion on
technology integration and how to significantly utilize education’s
investment in technology to enhance teaching and learning. In an
authentic and meaningful way, the use of T3 will not only allow our
students and teachers to focus on the content of today, but to
develop the relevant skills and mindsets needed for the world of
tomorrow."
*Gregory A. Rayl, M.Ed., Superintendent*
"A must read for educational leaders faced with a ‘technology rich
but innovative poor’ school, Disruptive Classroom Technologies
reframes how educators and students use digital tools in the
pursuit of transcendent learning. Equipped with the
easy-to-understand T3 Framework, teachers can quickly assess where
their own, and their student’s use of technology resides; at the
translational, transformational and transcendent level. Including
advice and real world examples of how to move students’ use of
digital tools from simple consumption to social entrepreneurship,
Disruptive Classroom Technologies equips teachers and leaders with
the tools and mindset necessary to engage students as active
architects of their learning in a solution-driven, global community
of learners."
*Kim Rayl, M.Ed., Curriculum Director*
"Change isn′t coming...it′s already on our doorstep. The disruptive
nature of technology compels all educators to critically evaluate
integration in support of improved learning outcomes. The T3
Framework developed by Sonny Magana provides a much needed tool for
all educators to harness the positive aspects of disruptive
technologies to support learning."
*Eric Sheninger, Author and Senior Fellow*
"A Terrific book! Anyone who can draw upon the Beatles, the Soviet
Union and Eddie Van Halen to illustrate technology in education, as
Dr. Sonny Magana does in Disruptive Classroom Technologies, clearly
has it going on!
· Leaders: Keep
this book by your side for inspiration, insight and ideas for
leading innovative classroom practice.
· Teachers: The T3
Framework will focus your daily teaching practices and hone your
natural instincts for innovative instruction and learning with
technology.
· Teachers and
Leaders: Take the T3 challenge! Can you empower your students to
the transcendent level of content understanding using disruptive
technologies?"
*Tom Charouhas, Digital Media Teacher*
"This is the book that can disrupt the future trajectory of
education. Disruptive Classroom Technologies is the book that could
help education evolve into a proper digital age system that will
empower students to be in control of their own future, no matter
what that may hold."
*Dr. L. Robert Furman, Principal*
"Dr. Magana gets to the heart of how to create transcendent
learning environments, clearly demonstrating the role technology
can play in driving social entrepreneurship and change. This book
is different than most: Sonny has artfully captured the importance
of technology in the larger context of transcending traditional
learning, using technology to better engage learners, solve
difficult problems, and improve results."
*Renee Patton, Director of Education*
"Developing students who are active, informed, and capable of
taking action in the real world is at the heart of Disruptive
Classroom Technologies. Sonny has shared a new research- and
evidence-based framework to guide our thinking about innovation in
education, aptly identifying students’ "passion and purpose" as the
key drivers for school improvement. This book should challenge
leaders and teachers alike to review expectations around how and
why they lever digital tools in contemporary learning design."
*Mark Sparvell, Senior Education Manager, School Leader Audience
Strategy*
"If there is one book all educational leaders read, make it
this one. Creating learning environments that promote and foster
innovation in both teaching and learning are essential today.
Education is ripe for disruption and Sonny has provided a clear
framework for helping students and teachers to do more. The T3
Framework can provide guidance to all educational leaders and
create the learning students need and deserve."
*Steven W. Anderson, Digital Learning and Relationship
Evangelist*
"Disruptive Classroom Technologies provides concrete and clearly
defined descriptors for each level of the T3 Framework. Compared
with existing frameworks, the T3 Framework makes it easier to
classify observed classroom examples of technology integration—and
I predict it will be more intuitive for teachers to visualize
moving to the higher levels of the T3 Framework. As a district
that’s working with the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning hub, I
really value the alignment of T2 and T3 with deep learning
progressions, particularly leveraging digital tools for developing
creative ideas and supporting effective leadership for action."
*Bill Palmer, Director of Teaching and Learning and Technology
Integration*
"Educators are struggling to navigate classroom environments that
are increasingly disrupted by new and emerging technology. In
Disruptive Classroom Technologies, Magana helps to make the
ambiguity of the current landscape something to both look forward
to, and harness. There is no better or more important time to be a
teacher, and any self-reflecting leader or educator will benefit
from the intentionality of Magana’s T3 Framework."
*Erin Bown-Anderson, Director of Technology Integration*
"Disruptive Classroom Technologies offers a timely and practical
approach to taming the disjointed adoption of technology in schools
today. A trademark of Sonny′s work is its ability to be
applied immediately in schools to shift the paradigm of classroom
innovation. This text gives the practitioner an actionable level of
understanding through a realistic framework."
*Darin Knicely, Ed.S., Ed Tech Entrepreneur and School Leader*
"In Disruptive Classroom Technologies, Magana captures precisely
the transformational nature of the iEARN global network’s
peer-to-peer interaction and authentic learning, pointing out that
this transformation takes place in educators as well as students as
both learn with the world instead of just about it. Sonny
accurately, and to my knowledge uniquely, describes this classroom
approach as a start-up entrepreneurial endeavor where the teacher
becomes the "learning manager" in a setting in which students make
meaningful contributions through problem-solving and inquisitive
interaction. With the depth and breadth of varied experiences both
in and outside the classroom, Dr. Magana is able to peel apart the
many layers of effective teaching and learning and identify a
coherent T3 Framework."
*Dr. Edwin H. Gragert, Ph.D., Executive Director Emeritus*
"The T3 Framework provides a measurable, hierarchical model for
guiding technology usage in the classroom. It provides
educators with a way to inspect their current practices and
establish a clear path to purposeful technology use in order to
engage their students. The true power of T3 is the
operationalizing of theory for direct application to the classroom
setting. Disruptive Classroom Technologies will resonate with
any educator who wants to maximize the impact of technology on
instruction."
*James Corns, Director Digital Safety and Innovation*
"With the plethora of technology tools to choose from, busy
teachers and administrators are at a loss when deciding which tools
will help improve learning. Sonny Magana’s T3 Framework is a
timely solution to this problem. The self-evaluative matrices,
questionnaires and framing tools make the task of transforming
one’s teaching achievable. Disruptive Classroom Technologies will
take a place of honor on my bookshelf, right next to Friedman and
Bonk!"
*Jan Zanetis, Managing Director*
"As schools and other institutions of learning struggle to keep
pace with the evolving demands and challenges of educating,
"today’s learners for tomorrow’s future," questions persist about
the investment and value technology brings to the work of teaching
and learning. Anchored in authoritative research on known,
high-yield pedagogical practice and building on the prevailing
TPACK and SAMR frameworks, Magana presents a refined and structured
approach to thinking about technology in instruction that minimizes
ambiguity, misinterpretation, and the low-level application of
educational technology in schools. The T3 Framework provides an
actionable and forward thinking model that explicitly addresses
these value-added objectives while adding a new dimension for
leading learners to a place of transcendent technology use, where
inquiry design and social entrepreneurship seek to address pressing
concerns of social justice and the application of technology to
solve complex problems that are personal, communal, and global in
nature. This is a must read book for anyone who wants to ensure
technology in schools is used as a force-multiplier to truly power
student learning, agency, and the development of skills to thrive
as contributing architects of this century′s knowledge
economy."
*Carl Fahle, Information Technology Director, Educational
Technology Leader*
"Emerging economies are making huge investments in ICT aimed at
improving student learning outcomes. However, these investments are
not paying off for lack of a coherent road map that leads to
substantive student learning. Sonny’s T3 framework is the
much-needed innovation that can change this situation. His
framework will be easily understood by policy makers, and
furthermore, it allows for development planners to efficiently
prepare program costing, design implementation arrangements, and
prepare effective monitoring mechanism for maximum impact of ICT in
education. Let’s raise the T3 flag and transform education for
all!"
*John W. Henly, International Education Adviser*
"Sustainable innovation in education is not about designing
something new and flashy. Authentic innovation that
positively transforms student learning and success only comes from
the development of relationships among students and teachers. Dr.
Magana’s work is vital because it is a call to design learning
environments that support teachers while also engaging students in
challenging curriculum and activities. Transformation only occurs
when school systems focus on enhancing the roles, interactions, and
expectations of what our students and educators can
accomplish. By increasing authentic learning partnerships,
educators increase the potential to tap into students’ passions to
solve issues, challenges, and problems that exist today. Sonny’s
new T3 Framework helps guide this work to ignite the commitments of
educators and students through the effective integration of
technology into teaching and learning."
*Ivan Duran, EdD., Assistant Superintendent*
"Today’s learning environments necessitate the use of technology
and now they have been given a big boost by Dr. Magana’s
contribution of the T3 Framework. Magana introduces a common
vocabulary clearly organized and accessible within a taxonomy of
stages. The T3s are not just for K-12 classrooms; rather, coaches,
consultants and trainers designing on line professional development
courses will find nuggets of knowledge within the Framework. One
will ‘strike gold’ when learners are moved toward positive,
inclusive and communal responses."
*Gretchen Dobson, EdD, Global Strategist*
"As a leader and innovator in technology integration, Dr. Magana
supportively challenges educators to disrupt conventional ways of
conceptualizing and engaging technology in classroom settings. The
T3 Framework provides a practical and user-friendly model for
pushing beyond the traditional boundaries that tend to limit
effective technology applications in education. Technology
integration in teaching and learning holds great promise for
enhancing student engagement and achievement in useful and
wonderful ways. The T3 Framework shows us how."
*Laurie Stevahn, Professor of Educational Leadership*
"This is a must read for any change maker truly invested in making
a difference with the use of technology in the classroom. Dr.
Magana’s T3 framework provides the in-depth guidance needed for any
learning organization to embrace a "disruptive" approach to
technology use. The methodology to achieve Transcendence with both
teachers and students alike is a fascinating. Readers will embrace
the theory backed by action."
*Jose Reyes, EdD, Director of Adult and Alternative School*
"Technology is a very real and prevalent part of today’s society,
and as educators who are preparing students to become successful in
this society it is essential that we use it to enhance student
learning in an effective and meaningful way. Disruptive Classroom
Technologies provides a framework for how to obtain that
technological knowledge."
*Allison Greene, Third Grade Teacher*
"This book is essential reading for school leaders at every level.
This excellent book gives school leaders authoritative guidance
about what the future could look like in their schools. What I like
about this book is that it gives a structure for personal and
vicarious learning about the real matter of school leadership, so
that these accumulated experiences and wisdom are not lost at
either the personal or collegial levels."
*Dr. Neil MacNeill, Head Master*
"As districts struggle to truly embed technology into the daily
classroom learning, it is becoming clear that a new set of language
and ideas are needed to move this work forward. This book provides
readers with a fresh framework that can build institutional
capacity and deeper integration of education technology."
*Dr. Robert Dillon, Director*
"Understanding Sonny’s background and past work, I had high
expectations, but Disruptive Classroom Technologies was even better
than I had expected. I so enjoyed this work and got so much from it
that I can’t wait to start sharing it with schools immediately.
Sonny outlines the truly personal and relevant use of technology by
students, to understand, hypothesize, innovate and solve the
"wicked real-life problems that matter to them." The T3 Framework
will require some serious reflective, honest, and thoughtful effort
from district leaders and faculty, but the potential student
rewards and outcomes cannot be maximized without this key piece. I
believe the real power of Disruptive Classroom Technologies
and the T3 Framework lies in the guided, step-by-step approach
Sonny has developed for setting vision and goal-setting, and to
building consensus, belief, and mastery in their plans. This is an
absolutely great work!"
*Mike Belcher, Director of EdTech Innovation*
"Dr. Sonny Magana’s T3 framework for innovation in education offers
a useful tool for educators globally to embrace the disruptive
technologies that abound today. Templates of questions for
considering the T3 framework in the context of rapid technological
changes allow educators to engage learners at ever deeper and more
meaningful levels. Dr. Magana’s great manual for using existing
classroom technologies for engaging learners and learning
communities in a transcendent manner has the clear and cogent
potential for changing our educational world for the better."
*John Jacob Zucker Gardiner, Ph.D.*
I can highly recommend "Disruptive Classroom Technologies" to any
educator (teacher or leader) who is interested in ensuring that
they implement the use of technologies in their school/classroom in
the best possible way. If you’re not content with the status quo
and you want to improve the way technologies are used in your
setting, this book is for you. Dr. Sonny Magana has outlined a
simple three stage ‘T3 Framework’ to assist educators to innovate
in their own schools, to reflect on where they currently stand, and
to give direction for where they could be going. This book is both
easy to read and highly engaging, as Sonny has embedded
‘rock’n’roll’ references and analogies throughout and it’s one of
those books you think you will just start reading, and then you
realise you have finished reading it all in one sitting! Sonny
supports his readers to implement the T3 Framework in their own
schools by providing online links to a range of resources such as
goal-setting and observation guides. This is a book I will
definitely keep going back to and is well worth purchasing!
*Rachael Lehr*
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