Digital Badge #L

After reading chapter twelve in the required textbook, I was able to gain knowledge on the importance of integrating technology in to teacher lesson plans. Also, more importantly, I was able to learn that in order for this integration to occur, we as future educators, and present teachers, must take responsibility and make changes to the ways we create our lectures and lesson plans. This is the topic I decided to elaborate more on. I believe that this is where many of today's future and present educators still struggle to understand and cope with. As seen above, through the use of Canva, a website used for brilliant poster making, I created a poster that shows the five technology integration stages. They are, the Entry stage, adoption stage, adaption stage, appropriation stage, and the invention stage. According to the textbook, specifically a study done by the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow, each teacher could be said to fall in to one of the five stages. The stages could be described as follows:

1. Entry Stage: The teacher is mediocre when integrating technology into their lesson plan. The teacher needs a substantial amount of time to figure out how computers work and how to apply it to the lesson plan.

2. Adoption Stage: The teacher is able to use technology into their lesson plan but the majority of the lesson plan has not changed and therefore technology isn't used at its maximum potential.

3. Adaption Stage: In this stage the teacher is using technology on a regular basis and makes it a priority in the lesson plans. This is where, I believe, most teachers tend to feel that integration of technology in to lesson plans is at its max.

 4. Appropriation Stage: This is where a teachers goes beyond integrating technology in the classroom and applying it to their work life outside of school. This is a type of teacher that uses technology to continue teaching even outside the classroom and thus reaches out to students in various ways.

 5. Invention Stage: This is the level of integration that involves manipulating everything else through the use of technology. Everything the teacher could easily be performed via technological tools. The teacher has immaculate knowledge of programs, tools, softwares, apps, and etc. The teacher is very "tech-savvy" so to speak.

 After reading that specific section of the chapter and analyzing the stages I was able to determine that I fall in to the Adoption Stage. Although I am able to use technology and create lesson plans around it, I honestly can say that I am not at the Adaption Stage because I tend to fall back to old ways and wanting to teach in a way where technology is not used as much. As a future educator I have to take the time and be patient with technology and acknowledge that although its going to take a lot of time to move up on the stage list, integration of technology is important to the generation of students that are growing up in a technology based society.


Resources:

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.