FRAMEWORK strategy: Technology Integration Matrix
Best practices encourage children to collaborate, interact, and discover interests that can motivate students to succeed through peer interactions. Prior to assessment, children need hands-on experiences to enhance their skills through investigation, trial, and error, and to explore the world around them. Our Christian Ethic of care aids learners in their learning journey as much as possible. Most importantly, students who are interested in learning organize their thoughts and focus their attention on how they will succeed in acquiring knowledge.
This MODEL uses five distinctive interdependent characteristics (left column), five levels of technology integration (top row) combined in a matrix of twenty-five cells designed to enhance learning environments.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT:
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Active learning is when students are visibly active and engaged in accessing technology as a tool versus just to receive information.
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Collaborative learning is involving students’ using technology tools to communicate with others.
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Constructive learning is the students’ understanding of how to use technology tools to acquire new information from previous information (Side note: this made me think of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development and Scaffolding).
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Authentic learning is the students’ ability to make connections between learning activities and exposure to the world. Learning occurs spontaneously in one's natural environment versus just in the classroom.
Goal-directed learning is the students’ understanding of how to set goals, monitor progress, plan activities, and evaluate results using technology tools.
