Joyce Valenza writes: "We need to learn how to leverage the tools on our new desks. We need to make conscious choices about the way we manage information and communication workflow in a way that is entirely anti-worksheet. For any of the tools we use, we need to master notions of their affordances and constraints."
Via Mary Reilley Clark
I had a teacher ask if I could teach her students app smashing. I explained that the project we just did with her class, using Google Slides, Google Cultural Institute, Nimbus Screenshot, and Google Hangout was exactly that. Joyce's article gives a much better explanation of how, and more importantly, why we need to a better job of thinking about the tools we use and teach.