Module 1- Technology Integration Frameworks

 Hello everyone, 

     My name is Brett Lightsey and welcome to my very first blog post! I am currently a student at the University of Auburn Montgomery(AUM) located in Montgomery, Alabama. I graduated from AUM in May of 2019 with my bachelors degree in Kinesiology. I am currently working on my masters degree in Physical Education. Educational Technology is a class that I am currently participating in. One of our assignments is to create blog posts about the information it covers and how it can be used in the field. I hope this blog post and future ones give you some information about Education Technology and how useful it can be to incorporate throughout classrooms.  

     For this blog post I will be discussing Module 1 "Technology Integration and Frameworks." What is technology integration and frameworks? Let me break them down into two different subjects. Lets start with technology integration. Technology integration (ISTE) has standards that are designed to help with student voice and make sure that learning is a student driven process. The ISTE Standards for Students are: Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. Theses standards prepare learners for the literacies they will face in the future. They can help me as a educator by helping me connect with other educators in the ISTE Community to learn and come up with different ways to incorporate these standards into the classroom. 

     Frameworks give a foundation and support to Technology Integration. To me this is very important because it allows me as a educator to develop standards that will guide instructional resources and professional learning experiences that will impact the policies at the state level. One fact that I was able to take from this module is that teachers can use Frameworks to help design how they teach content that is aligned to standards. The Standards I am discussing about can be found in the Alabama Digital Literacy and Computer Science Course of Study. 

     Module 1 gave me as a learner several models that can be used in a classroom setting to better educate students. There were several important frameworks that can be used to the effective integration in the classroom. The models were: TPACK Model, SAMR Model, SAMR Swimming Pool, Bloom's to SAMR, TECH Model, and the PRIMM Model. The TPACK Model is known as Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. This framework gives me as a teacher the ability to effectively teach and engage students with technology. It tells me as a teacher what I know, how I teach, and what technology I will be using. The SAMR Model is known as Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. This framework lets me know as a teacher how I am incorporating technology into my classroom and how I can teach what is called "above the line." The SAMR Model gives me the ability as a teacher to better myself by evaluating my teaching. The TECH Model is know as Traditional Enhanced Choice Handoff. The TECH Model is for examining the evolution of tech integration in classrooms. The PRIMM Model is known as: Predict, Run, Investigate, Modify, and Make. This model was made to help teachers structure lessons in programming. 

     Technology Integration Frameworks is very important in and out of the classroom for educators. This module helped me understand how the various technology integration frameworks apply to the lessons I will present in the following ways above. It helped me learn that Frameworks is designed to help me teach content that is aligned to Standards. Technology Integration Frameworks will help me enable students to use cognitive and technical skills so that they can evaluate, create, and communicate information to the best of their ability. 

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