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As you have learned from the SAMR model and other frameworks, digital tools and services can either replace or radically redefine learning tasks and resources. In this section, you will examine technology use in your classroom or school, building a critical eye toward why, how, and when students use technology and ways in which that use supports powerful learning.
Effective Use of Digital Tools
Effective Use of Digital Tools
Teachers' Essential Guide to Teaching with Technology
Teachers' Essential Guide to Teaching with Technology
This guide from Common Sense Education offers an overview of questions and considerations for the use of digital learning tools in the classroom. While it predates the pandemic, many of the key topics apply to both remote and in-person student learning.
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Activity Directions
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Explore educator considerations for the use of digital tools and services in instruction
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Activities
Read the guide Teachers' Essential Guide to Teaching with Technology
Discuss these questions with your learning partner.
What practices or considerations listed in this guide do you include in your own instruction?
What are some considerations that are overlooked when educators use technology in the classroom?
What are some of the issues which have become more important or critical during remote and hybrid learning?
Impactful Digital Student Learning
Impactful Digital Student Learning
Sharing Tools for Measuring Impactful Technology Use
Sharing Tools for Measuring Impactful Technology Use
Another product of the Digital Promise Dynamic Learning Project, this rubric offers a simple way to assess technology use in the classroom.
Activity Directions
Activity Directions
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Examine instructional use of digital tools and services in practice
Identify criteria for assessing technology use by students
Activities
Activities
Review the resource Sharing Tools for Measuring Impactful Technology Use.
Discuss these questions with your learning partner.
In what ways do the criteria support student agency and choice?
What connections do you see with the SAMR model? ISTE standards?
In what ways was technology use different during remote and hybrid learning?
Bookmark the following links using your LIFT Bookmarks Form or a curation tool of your choice.
Measuring Digital Student Learning
Measuring Digital Student Learning
Activity Directions
Activity Directions
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Reflect on and assess technology use by students using an observational protocol and rubric
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Activities
Explore the Impactful Technology Use Rubric.
Review your (or another educator's) use of educational technology with students using the ITU Rubric and save a copy to your LIFT Folder. You do not need to fill in the rubric, but make sure you complete the following questions.
Respond to these questions in your LIFT Portfolio.
Of the six skills (Select Relevant Technology Tools, Collaboration, Communication, etc.) which were strongest?
Of the six skills (Select Relevant Technology Tools, Collaboration, Communication, etc.) which were weakest?
Overall, which was stronger -- frequency of use or proficiency of use? Why?
Deep Dive: Building Digital Proficiency
Deep Dive: Building Digital Proficiency
Building proficiency with digital learning tools and services is a never-ending process for educators. While the pandemic increased educator use of technology, the explosion of digital solutions and the rapid innovation of existing tools means that educators are always needing to learn and relearn how to use educational technology. Like the LIFT Portfolio, these resources were created by educators for educators to help them build proficiency and fluency when using digital tools and services.
This resource was developed to provide curated training and professional learning guides for widely-adopted digital tools and services used in classrooms in Washington State.
This resource includes both training guides to learning management systems in addition to asynchronous professional learning modules on topics ranging from Engaging Students to Creating Online Community.
Activity Directions
Activity Directions
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Identify and use training guides, videos, and other resources to build or complement your technical skills in using selected digital tools and services
Build knowledge and fluency in the use of educational technology
Activities
Activities
Research and use guides and training resources to build your skills and confidence in using digital tools and services. Here are the resources listed above
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