The Super-Connected Classroom: Experiments in Ingenuity From the Ground Up

When Chris Lehmann, principal of the technology-rich Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, wanted to give teachers feedback on their lessons last year, he turned to his iPad. Lehmann wanted to deliver comments to teachers faster than typing them into Microsoft Word documents would allow. So he started entering compliments, critiques, and notes into teachers’ personal Google spreadsheets as he observed them, triggering instant alerts in their email inboxes. “It led to wonderful dialogue and it was a way to give feedback in a timely fashion in a way that [...] didn’t just stick in a file cabinet somewhere,” Lehmann said.