"Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential Steps" - Article Response

I think this artcle was great! We have recently acquired a set of iPads for our department. Several of the teachers have not even used these iPads in their classrooms. I have heard a few of them say that they didn't know how to incorporate them or they didn't see a use for them. I have recently incorporated them into a lesson about commercial advertising. The students filmed and edited the commercial using the iPads. This definitely wasn't higher-order thinking by any means, but it still introduced students to a new way of doing things. After reading this article I will definitely be sitting down to re-evaluate how I use them and finding more ways to increase student learning with them instead of simply creating a fun activity with them.