Technology Design as Educational Research: Interweaving Imagination, Inquiry, and Impact

Designing educational experiences is an imaginative art. As designers, we anticipate and fabricate activities, resources, and conversations that will bring learners’ inquiry to fulfillment, enabling their growth toward desirable skills, intuitions, and understandings. As Whitehead suggests, success in this art requires highly developed tools, and the computer, in its protean flexibility, is the most evolved tool of educational imagination.