EdTech Align - Easy way to gauge your proficiency level for technology integration.

A Guide to Interpretation of Your EdTech Align Scores

EdTech Align is a survey instrument designed to analyze teachers’ degrees of proficiency for integrating technology into their teaching practice. The following is your edtech proficiency report based on your responses to the survey items. This report contains graphical information and improvement tips. You can utilize the customized report and get advice for being a successful technology-savvy teacher.
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Participant Information

Name: Demo Cameron
E-mail: student4@demo.edu
Age: 18 - 25
Gender: Male
Date / Time: 2017-04-27 23:40:06

Your EdTech Align scores at a Glance

Each recommended level of proficiency is based on research studies in the field of educational technology.

EdTechAlign Dimensions Your Scores Recommended Level
Creativity 100 (High Proficiency) 87
Citizenship 100 (High Proficiency) 85
Digital Literacy 100 (High Proficiency) 87
Pedagogy 100 (High Proficiency) 88
Leadership 100 (High Proficiency) 83

Creativity

This CREATIVITY dimension assesses your ability to integrate technology creatively in your teaching. CREATIVITY and technology are intertwined concepts that enhance engagement and promote critical thinking skills. Using emerging technology in the classroom can improve differentiation so all students learn at their own level. Multimedia technologies allow for authentic real-world problems to make learning relatable. Additionally, a creative and immersive lesson motivates students to learn and can result in a better-managed classroom. Embracing your creativity through the use of technology will make a measurable difference in your classroom environment and the learning outcomes of your students.

Your Creativity score is 100 (High Proficiency). You have a drive to use innovative technology that engages students. You consistently embrace ingenuitive classroom exploration that focuses on student learning outcomes. You keep the goal in mind when designing course content.

CREATIVITY strategies for high edtech proficiency:
  • Design Project Based Learning (PBL) lessons;
  • Instruct students to document project development with a multimedia production (e.g., videos, links, images, graphics, etc.);
  • Integrate Design Based Learning (DBL) (e.g., create an app, program a robot);
  • Develop immersive virtual field trips;
  • Create eXtended Reality content (e.g., VR, MR, AR);
  • Teach students to analyze data using spreadsheets to inform critical thinking decisions;
  • Instruct students to design 3D models with a CAD program;
  • Use a 3D printer to produce an artifact from a topic/lesson;
  • Code a program that uses artificial intelligence.

Citizenship

This CITIZENSHIP dimension measures your competency level in teaching digital citizenship to your students. Digital citizenship is about more than online safety. It’s about creating thoughtful, empathetic digital citizens who can wrestle with important ethical questions at the intersection of technology and humanity. As a teacher, you could help students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world. Meanwhile, you could encourage students to apply critical thinking to all the media they use and consume; and to learn how to evaluate all these things ethically and effectively.

Your Citizenship score is 100 (High Proficiency). You are open to hearing and respectfully recognizing multiple viewpoints, and you encourage students to engage with others online with respect and empathy. Meanwhile, you are competent in teaching students to protect them from harmful content, cyberbullying, privacy risks, scams, and viruses.

CITIZENSHIP strategies for high edtech proficiency:
  • Design a webpage with instructions and tips for creating non-plagiarized/fair use-compliant projects;
  • Integrate an assistive technology in the classroom for all students to use to destigmatize the tool;
  • Recognize when students require assistive technologies not outlined within their IEP;
  • Evaluate the use of an assistive technology to determine if it is helping the student succeed.

Digital Literacy

This DIGITAL LITERACY dimension measures your fluency in a digital society - both how you use and teach it. Much of the communication and information in our daily lives is facilitated by computer devices and the Internet. Navigating the contents of the internet - including news, multimedia, and social media - requires users to access, interact, discern, evaluate, learn, and create digital information safely and intelligently. Digital literacy involves critical thinking and combines technological and cognitive skill sets as you utilize edtech and research, create, evaluate, and communicate information.

Your Digital Literacy score is 100 (High Proficiency). You are advanced in how you navigate and stay safe when using the internet and digital resources. You not only teach your students to use the internet, but you empower them to be digitally literate. You are also a resource at your institution and provide your expertise to your peers and model digital literacy best practices.

DIGITAL LITERACY strategies for high edtech proficiency:
  • Offer your expertise as a resource to others to help with technology questions or issues;
  • Train students to act as technology supports within the classroom;
  • Encourage students to create their own technology troubleshooting solution tutorial videos;
  • Evaluate sources while researching to assess their perspective/motive;
  • Create evaluative rubrics for reviewing the accuracy of online content;
  • Teach students how to design algorithm-based passwords;
  • Teach students about using active virus scan software;
  • Teach students how to use a VPN;
  • Install kid-safe internet browsers on classroom computers and teaching students how to use them;
  • Model how to protect personal metadata.

Pedagogy

This PEDAGOGY dimension centers on the purposeful and effective integration of technology into professional practice for face-to-face, hybrid, and fully-online learning. This dimension measures how you leverage technology for teaching, learning, collaboration, productivity, and communication. Improving the integration of technology into your pedagogy requires lifelong learning, and often involves research, trial and error, reflection, learning from others, and sharing your technological pedagogical expertise with the larger community.

Your Pedagogy score is 100 (High Proficiency). You expertly design your instruction around the effective and efficient use of technology in the classroom. You differentiate the learning materials, projects, and edtech tools you use in your lessons. Furthermore, you harness the power of technology to gather data and make data-driven decisions. You are a resource to your peers and you strive to be an edtech leader in your institution. You actively share your expertise with your educational community and participate in technology initiatives and opportunities that others may be intimidated by.

PEDAGOGY strategies for high edtech proficiency:
  • Design a webpage for class resources;
  • Teach students to develop digital portfolios;
  • Create a rubric for evaluating digital content resources;
  • Conduct a pilot test to measure instructional impacts of a new technology;
  • Offer students the option to use different digital content resources for the same learning task/objective;
  • Publish review videos/posts on the technology tools;
  • Share lesson ideas/strategies online for using edtech tools/resources;
  • Perform a usability study on edtech tools/resources;
  • Create video blogs or provide videos for parents/guardians on classroom events;
  • Develop customized explanatory feedback on digital assessments;
  • Analyze student data to make informed instructional decisions;
  • Download data and run custom analytics in a different platform;
  • Update edtech tools and content used in the classroom periodically;
  • Perform action research on edtech tools and content used in the classroom;
  • Participate in district technology initiatives;
  • Present at a professional edtech conference.

Leadership

This LEADERSHIP dimension measures your ability to advance the edtech competencies of other professionals at your institution. Effective leaders research and share best practices with their colleagues, advocate for equitable access to resources, and collaborate with decision-makers to influence educational technology policy and manage innovation diffusion.

Your Leadership score is 100 (High Proficiency). You are part of the decision-making team at your institution and use research, management, and advocacy skills to advance innovative educational technology initiatives and policies. You provide training in best educational technology practices to professional communities in the field and are perceived by your peers and your administrators as a local expert.

LEADERSHIP strategies for high edtech proficiency:
  • Lead a professional development/professional conference presentation on edtech;
  • Lead a district technology initiative/rollout;
  • Chair a school or district technology committee;
  • Become an edtech influencer;
  • Publish in professional journals;
  • Develop and publish custom edtech resources for other educators;
  • Conduct scientific research on the impacts of a technology;
  • Manage implementation of a school or district technology initiative;
  • Implement an equitable access project (e.g., bus Wi-Fi);
  • Offer your classroom for other teachers to observe (e.g., pineapple chart);
  • Provide personal consultations on technology/instructional design for colleagues;
  • Manage a social media account to share best practices with the field/community.