Explain how digital technologies that you know and use have been or might become disruptive to an educational procedure, process, or environment leading to substantive change.

Explain how digital technologies that you know and use have been or might become disruptive to an educational procedure, process, or environment leading to substantive change. (100 words)
What are the major issues, developments, and trends in the field of educational technology and how do you as a technology-using educator address these issues, developments, and trends in order to succeed as a teacher? (100 words)
Disruptive Technologies & Educational Change
Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma
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, published in 1997, proposes the theory of disruptive innovations. After examining product performance trajectories in businesses undergoing technological change, he concluded that when businesses and firms fail to understand the ways that technology disrupts existing practices, they are often left behind in a changing marketplace.
Turning the focus to the impact of technology in education, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
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by Christensen and co-authors Curtis W. Johnson and Michael B. Horn explains that some technologies create step-by-step improvements in existing practices while others constitute big breakthroughs or “disruptive” events that transform how education happens. They propose that educators should use technologies to reinvent the way that they design teaching and learning environments. Researchers Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker have further extended Christensen’s ideas about disruptive technologies in Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools.
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There are numerous videos on YouTube that Clayton Christensen is in, including the one below, that is a great review of “Disruptive Innovation Explained” posted by the Harvard Business Review.

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