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In my eleven years teaching high school Spanish, English, and journalism, I’ve always looked for ways that tech could add to the learning experience. Hearing from other educators about how they’ve approached this has only confirmed my commitment to centering technology in the classroom. It’s amazing what it allows us to do:

 We can talk face-to-face with experts and other classrooms like ours all over the world with video calls.

 We can share our work widely with authentic audiences through websites and podcasts.

 We can blur the border of the digital world and the real world through augmented reality.

 We can make learning visible, showing what’s in our brains, with graphic design tools.

 We can create audio and video with superb production quality.

When tech is centered, students still learn. But they also develop vital skills—technical skills, communication, creativity—that will serve them later, in the workforce.

Classroom tech can help make learning fun, too. That’s the heart of this book: we can weave student engagement and tech like a tapestry to create an experience that amplifies student learning.