Don't Start With the App. Too often, technology integration starts with a tool: What can we do with this app? This session flips that approach. Instead, educators will start by identifying the cognitive action they want from students—retrieving, predicting, explaining, comparing, organizing, discussing, or applying—and then choose technology that strengthens that thinking. Using practical classroom examples and activities from the Spark-Wire-Fire framework (https://crushschool.com/spark-wire-fire-framework), participants will see how the same tool can either produce digital busywork or create a more engaging, memorable, and meaningful learning experience depending on how the task is designed. We will examine common technology-based assignments, identify what students are actually being asked to think about, and redesign them around stronger learning processes. Participants will leave with a simple planning framework they can use with any app or platform: learning goal → cognitive action → activity → technology. The result is technology integration driven by learning, not by the latest tool.
Target audience identified by presenter: Technology Leadership;Technology Integration
