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• For meaningful learning to occur, the task should engage active, constructive, intentional, authentic, and cooperative activities.
• Technologies are learning tools that students learn with, not from.
• When students use technologies to investigate, explore, write, build models, build communities, communicate with others, design, and visualize, then they are engaged in deeper levels of thinking and reasoning, including causal, analogical, expressive, experiential, and problem solving.

Although I support incorporating technologies into the classroom, I am hesitant, and somewhat reluctant, to include technologies to a great extent. Previously, I believed that using technology in the classroom was limited to teaching a lesson using PowerPoint or searching the Internet for more information on a topic. I did not view it as a "tool to think with" (10). The chapter encouraged me to broaden my view of technology as a classroom tool. For example, a webcam can be used to connect one classroom with another in a different state or on the other side of the globe. In addition, a class is even able to take virtual field trips of a museum or aquarium online.