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 Smith
E-mail: student16@demo.edu
Age: 18 - 25
Gender: Male
Date / Time: 2019-02-21 17:51:35

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 80 (Low Proficiency) 87
Citizenship 100 (High Proficiency) 85
Digital Literacy 88 (Moderate Proficiency) 87
Pedagogy 50 (Low Proficiency) 88
Leadership 88 (Moderate 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 80 (Low Proficiency). You have a foundational understanding of creativity. You utilize technology when required but may overlook opportunities to incorporate creative experiences. Lack of creativity can result in lower student outcomes, decreased motivation, unengaged students, and classroom management concerns.

CREATIVITY strategies for low edtech proficiency:
  • Differentiate lesson content with interactive multimedia (e.g., videos, links, images, graphics, etc.);
  • Use the internet to provide real-world examples;
  • Invite virtual guest speakers to present in classrooms;
  • Use a computer or mobile device for interactive learning games to check for comprehension (e.g., Kahoot, Quizizz);
  • Develop engaging slideshow presentations (e.g., Pear Deck, Nearpod);
  • Integrate a learning management system to publish materials, multimedia resources, and online quizzes (e.g., Google Classroom, Moodle, Blackboard);
  • Use interactive displays for classroom activities;
  • Gather digital artifacts to use in student choice boards;
  • Use online calendars to manage deadlines and scaffold projects.

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 88 (Moderate Proficiency). You realize the importance of digital literacy and encourage students to troubleshoot problems they encounter, triangulate information they find on the web, and stay safe online. However, you realize there is more you can do to help improve your own digital literacy as well as that of your students.

DIGITAL LITERACY strategies for moderate edtech proficiency:
  • Utilize keystroke shortcuts;
  • Understand that using a search engine to find the answer is the first step to troubleshoot a technology problem;
  • Utilize documents and video resources to find solutions to technology issues;
  • Design tutorial videos on technology troubleshooting
  • Try emerging technology tools in the classroom;
  • Triangulate the scientific consensus or general accepted truth on a research topic;
  • Teach students how to sort through various different sources online
  • Teach students to recognize search engine biases;
  • Teach students about geotagging and personal information breadcrumbs;
  • Establish troubleshooting protocols for fixing classroom technology issues (e.g., device failure, connectivity issues).

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 50 (Low Proficiency). You may feel uncomfortable with technology or not be sure about how to integrate edtech tools or digital workflows into your instruction. Your confidence in using technology may need a boost. Be an active learner. Try to learn from resources such as tutorial videos on the web and others in your institution. Slowly try to use new technologies where you can - the more hands-on time you put in with technology, the more comfortable you will feel.

PEDAGOGY strategies for low edtech proficiency:
  • Use cloud-based learning materials/documents;
  • Use a learning management system for classroom materials;
  • Use a learning management system for student work submissions;
  • Use a learning management system for storing students’ grades;
  • Evaluate digital resources for school appropriateness;
  • Research reviews on different online resources;
  • Review edtech tools’ star ratings in app stores;
  • Distribute classroom emails informing parents and guardians of classroom news;
  • Utilize a text-based mass-messaging system;
  • Use social media to share classroom news;
  • Use an identity-masking proxy number or profile to communicate with parents/guardians to retain the confidentiality of your personal information;
  • Utilize an offline gamification quizzing tool;
  • Use pre-built content templates;
  • Participate in technology professional development;
  • Passively consume resources on new technology tools.

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 88 (Moderate Proficiency). You participate in research and management activities that inform decision makers about educational technology initiatives. You model best educational technology practices informally to your colleagues and are an active member of professional communities in the field.

LEADERSHIP strategies for moderate edtech proficiency:
  • Participate in a professional development or professional conference opportunity;
  • Volunteer to serve on a school technology committee;
  • Share social media posts about edtech;
  • Curate and share a list of edtech resources for other educators;
  • Perform action research;
  • Consult with experts on management;
  • Conduct a needs assessment with stakeholders;
  • Collect data on an equitable access issue (e.g., self-study);
  • Advocate to administration for equitable access solutions for edtech;
  • Design inclusive edtech learning materials;
  • Collaborate on designing professional development with colleagues;
  • Perform a needs assessment and design professional development accordingly.