Saturday, April 27, 2013
Technology Integration Matrix
The Technology Integration Matrix is a useful tool to evaluate the level at which a teacher and classroom operates with regard to technology integration and use. At its best, I would say my classroom operates at the Constructive/Infusion level, though it's not consistently. Some lessons I have had would include creating campaign commercials for candidates with the students having the choice of technology and style, research papers with a technology extension, and abstract expression of constitutional amendments using video.
I doubt that additional progress will be made by the end of this school year, but with visions of BYOD access for next year dancing in my head, I hope to be more consistent in my use of technology integration very soon. This improved infrastructure as well as better access to tools for my students will be necessary for progress to occur. Many students have devices available, but lab access within our school must also improve.
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ReplyDeleteCreating campaign materials is an excellent example of the Constructive/Infusion level! How did that go? What types of materials did your students turn in? Was it a group or individual project? Were they expected to create a multi-media marketing campaign with videos, radio spots, flyers, mailing, newspaper spots/interviews, or could they pick from any of those? What types of technology did they use to design them? Do all students have access to video and audio editing software and design software (like InDesign), or were students just encouraged to use whatever they could get their hands on? I'd like to do something similar to that in Spanish classroom. Maybe students could make an ad campaign for particular desitination, celebrity, or political figure from a Spanish-speaking country.
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