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MODELS AND THEORIES OF CHANGE
MODELS AND THEORIES OF CHANGE
8.1 Candidates will be able to apply models of change to understand the current situation of technology innovation in a school.
In ET680, we were asked to create a technology plan for our individual schools based on an examintation of the current situation of innovation and a thought of where we could be. My report was subtitled "Planning for a Plan," as I saw a need for more direction. I based out decision on three models we were discussing in the class: the Perceived Attributes Model, Ely's Eight Conditions of Change, and the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) Model.
The Perceived Attributes Model: This model gives innovators a basic template by which to rate their communities to see if they are ready and willing to engage in innovations. This model gives me the opportunity to put MSJ under the filter of Perceived Attributes to help me understand where we stand as a school in terms of innovations and whether or not PPD may be an innovation that MSJ would adopt. The five attributes described by this model are Relative Advantage, Compatibility, Complexity, Trialability, and Observability.
Ely's Eight Conditions: Donald Ely’s Eight Conditions seek to determine how well technology innovations might be implemented within a community. Like Rogers’ model, Ely’s model has multiple conditions that each examine a different aspect of a community but that work together to estimate a level of success for technology innovation. I examined the conditions and rated MSJ on how well the school fulfilled each one. I then interviewed a number of stakeholders who may be of some help to PPD to get their views on conditions that were met and others that were not.
ACOT Model: The Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) Model rates schools and individuals on how their beliefs and practices of teaching evolve when they have access to technology. The five stages are Entry; Adoption; Adaptation; Appropriation; and Invention. These five stages roughly relate to the SAMR model so popular in education and seek to assist innovators in fairly critiquing and changing the methods teachers use in the classroom.
I hope you enjoy my report below, as it gets into specific stages of the models and discusses how MSJ can become a future-thinking school in the arena of technology.
8.2 Candidates will be able to plan for the future of technology in a school using models of change.
Part of my ET691 Internship with Edward Schultheis focused on the rationale of our project. We wanted to create a different model of professional development for our teachers with the hope that our colleagues would be able to better disseminate technology information and model for students how to use technology appropriately. The models of change we included in our Internship were Ely's Eight Conditions of Change and the ACOT Model, although considerations from the Perceived Attributes Model certainly played a role in our Internship.
Ely's Eight Conditions: Donald Ely’s Eight Conditions seek to determine how well technology innovations might be implemented within a community. Like Rogers’ model, Ely’s model has multiple conditions that each examine a different aspect of a community but that work together to estimate a level of success for technology innovation. I examined the conditions and rated MSJ on how well the school fulfilled each one. I then interviewed a number of stakeholders who may be of some help to PPD to get their views on conditions that were met and others that were not.
ACOT Model: The Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) Model rates schools and individuals on how their beliefs and practices of teaching evolve when they have access to technology. The five stages are Entry; Adoption; Adaptation; Appropriation; and Invention. These five stages roughly relate to the SAMR model so popular in education and seek to assist innovators in fairly critiquing and changing the methods teachers use in the classroom.
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