Using technology in appropriate ways requires a restructuring of the school day and how the business of teaching is conducted. They can use technology to make their classroom come alive and make learning an exciting and meaningful experience for their students. Surprises are friends, not enemies. Surprises mean changes, whole new arrangements, new ways to revise, refocus, reshape. But the craftsperson is not in a hurry.
Surprises are enemies of time constraints.
Surprises are enemies of control. For when information or children present them with a surprise, the surprise has force and energy. They want the child to control, take charge of information in his writing. Their craft is to help the child maintain control for himself. That is the craft of teaching.