Tomorrow Learning
 Helping teacher integrate technology today
 Making students ready for tomorrow

Teachers have a big challenge in the 21st century.  We have to teach to standardized state tests, keep order in a class full of kids raised on YouTube and personal video players, help students develop good character--and integrate technology.

If you wrestle with these challenges, this site has been created to help you make technology a tool that really makes your life easier and your teaching more effective. 

How can that be true?  First, how can technology make our teaching more effective?  If we unite the principles of Project-based Learning and the power of technology tools, we can help our students "learn to learn."  That is, we can learn [yes, teachers must be learners, too] how to create projects that accomplish much more in the classroom and give our students greater understanding of content.  A well-designed project can also help students gain 21st century skills like information acquisition, productive collaboration and a broad understanding of the capabilities of future technologies.

So how does that make the teacher's life easier?  Well, if you've been trying to "stand and deliver" a lesson and then get your kids to do drill and practice, or if you have been trying to force students to write essays or you've been reading stories or chapters and then making them answer questions afterward, then you've probably been dealing with bored kids who don't behave unless you exert your will pretty strongly.  That's why you feel so stressed at the end of the day and why you are so often discouraged when your students don't want to learn.

Hi, I'm David Phillips.  I'm the Media Specialist at Prairiland High School in a small, rural district in Northeast Texas. 

Part of my job is helping teachers use technology for instruction and for getting students "hands on" with technology tools.  I've learned a great deal as I work to help other teachers, and I thought I should share some of that with you.

I teach a dual-credit English course in cooperation with Paris Junior College, and I also sponsor the Prairiland Patriot Yearbook.  I use technology every day to teach English, and my annual is an entirely digital publication.