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 Kabler
E-mail: student12@demo.edu
Age: 18 - 25
Gender: Male
Date / Time: 2017-04-28 01:16:35

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 60 (Low Proficiency) 87
Citizenship 60 (Low Proficiency) 85
Digital Literacy 60 (Low Proficiency) 87
Pedagogy 85 (Moderate Proficiency) 88
Leadership 87 (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 60 (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 60 (Low Proficiency). You may not be aware of the importance of digital citizenship. Lack of digital citizenship or poor digital citizenship can result in cyberbullying, irresponsible usage of social media, sharing sensitive personal details, lack of knowledge of Internet safety, and being insensitive to cultural differences.

CITIZENSHIP strategies for low edtech proficiency:
  • Provide tutorial videos on proper netiquette;
  • Model proper informal communication strategies;
  • Include language in the syllabus about expectations for digital communications;
  • Provide examples and non examples of discussion comments;
  • Introduce copyright/plagiarism/fair use topics;
  • Research assistive technologies for the classroom;
  • Practice with an assistive technology to develop confidence/competence for troubleshooting the use of that technology;
  • Select inclusive multimedia carefully.

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 60 (Low Proficiency). You may not feel literate when it comes to technology and the internet. That is okay! Digital literacy is a modern competency. A good way to prepare to teach digital literacy is to teach yourself. Consider searching the internet for websites and tutorial videos that explain digital literacy tips for how you can evaluate sources and stay safe online. Then, share the lessons you learn with your students.

DIGITAL LITERACY strategies for low edtech proficiency:
  • Research edtech for the classroom;
  • Ask colleagues for tips about tools to use in the classroom;
  • Attend professional conferences or professional development sessions on edtech;
  • Take the initiative to try new edtech tools in the classroom;
  • Ask for help from someone qualified for solving a technology issue
  • Be open-minded about using technology tools;
  • Develop the confidence to not be intimidated or flustered by technology issues;
  • Research different sources to uncover differing perspectives;
  • Teach students to change their passwords regularly;
  • Teach students how to utilize strong passwords;
  • Teach students not to give out personal information online;
  • Teach students that not everyone is who they say they are online;
  • Teach students safety protocols (such as turning off monitors and raising hands) when they discover inappropriate or confusing internet content;
  • Teach students to think carefully before clicking hyperlinks in email messages, as well as how to verify safe senders.

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 85 (Moderate Proficiency). You try to purposefully integrate technology into your instruction by utilizing web-based learning materials, learning management systems, and edtech tools. You analyze the resources and tools you use in order to integrate high-quality technologies into your instruction. You also seek to continually improve your technology-integrated pedagogy by attending professional conferences and seeking feedback from technology leaders.

PEDAGOGY strategies for moderate edtech proficiency:
  • Use technology purposefully;
  • Encourage students to utilize synchronous collaborative editing tools for projects;
  • Publish instructional content with cloud storage;
  • Teach students how to share documents using cloud productivity tools;
  • Use synchronous collaborative editing tools in the classroom;
  • Evaluate digital resources for pacing, lesson objective alignment, and ability levels;
  • Evaluate different resources to determine the best fit for filling a technology need in your classroom;
  • Seek out a technology tool that modifies or augments what you are doing in the classroom with a non-digital tool;
  • Distribute an online classroom newsletter;
  • Conduct parent/guardian conferences with a video conferencing tool
  • Host summative objective tests online;
  • Use the quiz function within a learning management system;
  • Perform formative game-based quizzing online;
  • Build your own quiz questions for an online quiz tool;
  • Develop corrective feedback;
  • Create digital rubrics for student assessments;
  • Import assessment data into a learning management system;
  • Use performance data to group students;
  • Observe other teachers’ classrooms to learn how to better integrate technology;
  • Participate in technology professional conferences;
  • Schedule an observation with your technology specialist;
  • Develop a fallback unplugged activity/lesson plan for when technology fails;
  • Develop a toolbelt of technology alternatives for when an edtech tool/digital resource does not cooperate.

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 87 (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.