Forming a Team

The stakeholders that I would reach out to first to start developing a technology integration plan would be the teachers and administrators in our building and at the middle school in our district.  The focus of my plan to help students improve their digital literacy skills through the re-establishing of the Computer Applications course at the high school level and the rewriting of the current middle school technology education curriculum would help us reach our district goal of graduating students who are proficient in digital literacy skills.  The end game would be to completely restructure how we teach digital literacy skills to our students starting in Kindergarten through 12th grade.

Creating a PLC to begin meeting with other teachers who are interested in helping achieve this goal would be a great way to get everyone who wants to be involved together to start planning an implementation strategy.  Williams, Atkinson, Cate, and O’Hair discuss how PLCs are an amazing way to foster conversation and collaboration among educators.  We could use the PLC time to plan, write curriculum, and organize professional development opportunities for other teachers to learn how to engage students in employing digital literacy skills in their classrooms.  Creating the opportunity for educators to come together in this manner will help provide intensive leadership development and support, resulting in increased school effectiveness and improved student outcomes in the area of digital literacy skills. The initial outcome we would focus on is the direct instruction of specific digital tools by our students that they are required to use in many classes.  This is important because even though students are required to use these tools and programs daily, they lack the skills to use these tools effectively.

The T3 Framework would be a great model to follow and employ in our district.  Magana discusses how the framework is designed to guide educators in effectively integrating technology into instructional practices to promote deeper learning and increase student engagement and achievement.  This model would help our team in planning how we will teach the use of technology in our classrooms as well as which technologies we should be teaching our students how to use to grow their learning.

References:

Magana, S. (2017). What is the T3 Framework for Innovation?  Retrieved from: https://maganaeducation.com/what-is-the-t3-framework-for-innovation/

Williams, L. A., Atkinson, L. C., Cate, J. M., O'Hair, M. J. (2008). Mutual support between learning community development and technology integration: Impact on school practices and student achievement. Theory Into Practice, 47, 294-302.