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1. The bottom line / punch line: when you combine exemplary teaching with the right technologies to create a new learning experience that would not have been possible otherwise, that’s when then magic happens – and student achievement increases.
2. If you simply add technology to a classroom with no intent to change instructional practices, or where the instructional practices are not optimal (lecturing, for example), then you don’t get the intended effect
3. If you take the best instructors but don’t equip them, then there is only so far they can go to create rich learning experiences for their students

So where are you on Vanides' "transformation continuum"?  It starts with "I lecture, you listen," moves up to "I talk AND show, and you listen AND watch/transcribe" (also known as Death by Powerpoint), upward from there to students as creators (not just consumers) of knowledge... and on.  Take a look at his presentation of a framework of a transformation continuum - both transformation in teaching and transformation of learning.