How can educators take advantage of these items to better improve instruction?
Easy! Its a recipe!
A quality lesson can only be made using 3 ingredients:
1 idea of content
1-2 ideas of pedagogy
1 or more tools of technology.
Start with content and decide what your students need to know. Then add the pedagogy; How are you gonna teach it? Then last, add the technology that will HELP the implementation of the lesson. If teachers follow these easy steps of the recipe, they will have success and create a "delicious" lesson for their students!