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Making Decisions About Educational Technology in the Classroom
Follow the flow chart to decide if a technology should be used in a lesson:
Does this technology align with the instructional goals of your lesson?
YES
Are the resources available to use this technology in the classroom?
YES
Will this technology be used to enhance the learning experience (as a substitution or augmentation of the activity) or will it be used to transform the learning experience (as a modification or redefinition of the activity)?
This technology will enhance the learning experience.
Will the use of this technology foster better accessibility, equity, and/or the opportunity to build digital literacy skills?
NO
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YES
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This technology will transform the learning experience.
Do your students have the level of skill necessary to effectively engage with this technology?
YES
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NO
1 more item...
NO
Do not integrate this technology for the lesson.
NO
Do not integrate this technology for the lesson.
Before you make lesson-level decisions about technology integration:
Determine what the
mission
of your educational technology plan will be: What skills and ideas do you want students to walk away with?
Determine your personal
philosophy
of education and decide how the use of technology aligns with that philosophy.
Determine the
vision
for your classroom management plan: What specific actions will you and/or students take to fulfill the mission? What are the non-negotiable practices?
Decide which Technology Integration Model works best within the framework of the mission and vision.
Teacher Perspective: Tech Decisions
Saving time and energy:
I have worked with several online platforms that offer the ability to automate grading and feedback, which saves me time and gives students the ability to very quickly know how they did. My word of caution for teachers using these platforms is that automation can save time at the cost of knowing your students. If you allow the automation to do all of the work without going back to look at how students performed, you will not know where they are in their understanding or how to respond in your instruction.
Non-Negotiables:
Age-Appropriate
Task-Appropriate
Aligned with lesson objectives
Accessible and/or can be differentiated
Meaningfully adds to the learning experience
This School Year:
I really want to explore building student digital literacy skills in the context of using technology to empower students to be positive actors in their community and in larger society. I want them to walk out of my classroom feeling confident that they can use their resources to be the change they want to see in the world.