ABSTRACT
The school community must continually consider changes in society, particularly technological changes, scientific breakthroughs, and historical events, and ensure that the curriculum is designed to shape successful world citizens. Schools that place a great emphasis on project management, time management, and resourcefulness develop citizens who are better prepared to lead self-reliant, productive lives. Conventional classrooms are based on a compliance model of education: the teacher has rules, goals, and assignments, and wants students to comply with those. At the core of the Learner-Active Technology-Infused Classroom lie three critical goals for instructional design: engage students in learning, build greater responsibility for student learning, and ensure academic rigor. Engaged learners need to be grappling with curricular content in significant ways much of the time, no matter what their ages. The Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom is a complex framework of interdependent structures and strategies that, together, provide the best possible learning environment for all students, thus being differentiated in and of itself.
