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Technology Integration Matrix

Observation Rubric

Observer
First Last
Classroom being observed:
School:
Date
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Select which characteristics of the learning environment you are observing:
- Active Learning
- Collaborative Learning-with technology
- Collaborative Learning-without technology
- Constructive Learning
- Authentic Learning
- Goal-Directed Learning
Active Learning
Students are actively engaged in using technology as a tool rather than passively receiving information from the technology.
- Active Entry
- Active Adoption
- Active Adaptation
- Active Infusion
- Active Transformation
Active Entry
Information passively received.
Students: Students receive information from the teacher or from other sources. Students may be watching an instructional video on a website or using a computer program for drill and practice activities.
Teacher: The teacher may be the only one actively using technology. This may include using presentation software to support delivery of a lecture. The teacher may also have the students complete drill and practice activities on computers to practice basic skills, such as typing.
Setting: The setting is arranged for direct instruction and individual work. Any student access to technology resources is limited and highly regulated.
Active Adoption
Conventional, procedural use of tools.
Students: Students use technology in conventional ways and are closely directed by the teacher.
Teacher: The teacher controls the type of technology and how it is used. The teacher may be pacing the students through a project, making sure that they each complete every step in the same sequence with the same tool. Although the students are more active than students at the Entry level in their use of technology, the teacher still strongly regulates activities.
Setting: The setting is arranged for direct instruction and individual work. The students have limited and regulated access to the technology resources.
Active Adaptation
Conventional independent use of tools; some student choice and exploration.
Students: Students work independently with technology tools in conventional ways. Students are developing a conceptual understanding of technology tools and begin to engage with these tools.
Teacher: The teacher allows for some student choice and exploration of technology tools. Because the students are developing a conceptual and procedural knowledge of the technology tools, the teacher does not need to guide students step-by-step through activities. Instead, the teacher acts as a facilitator toward learning, allowing for greater student engagement with technology tools.
Setting: Technology tools are available on a regular basis.
Active Infusion
Choice of tools and regular, self-directed use.
Students: Students understand how to use many types of technology tools, are able to select tools for specific purposes, and use them regularly.
Teacher: The teacher guides, informs, and contextualizes student choices of technology tools and is flexible and open to student ideas. Lessons are structured so that student use of technology is self-directed.
Setting: Multiple technology tools are available to meet the needs of all students.
Active Transformation
Extensive and unconventional use of tools.
Students: Students have options on how and why to use different technology tools for higher-order thinking tasks. They often use tools in unconventional ways and the technology itself becomes an invisible part of the learning.
Teacher: The teacher serves as a guide, mentor, and model in the use of technology. The teacher encourages and supports the active engagement of students with technology resources. The teacher facilitates lessons in which students are engaged in higher-order learning activities that may not have been possible without the use of technology tools. The teacher helps students locate appropriate resources to support student choices.
Setting: The arrangement of the setting is flexible and varied, allowing different kinds of self-directed learning activities supported by various technologies, including robust access to online resources for all students simultaneously.
Supporting notes
Collaborative Learning (with technology)
Students use technology tools to collaborate with others rather than working individually at all times.
- Collaborative Entry
- Collaborative Adoption
- Collaborative Adaptation
- Collaborative Infusion
- Collaborative Transformation
Collaborative Entry
Individual student use of tools.
Students:
Students primarily work alone when using technology. Students may collaborate without using technology tools.
Teacher:
The teacher directs students to work alone on tasks involving technology.
Setting:
The setting is arranged for direct instruction and individual work.
Collaborative Adoption
Collaborative use of tools in conventional ways.
Students:
Students have opportunities to use collaborative tools, such as email, in conventional ways. These opportunities for collaboration with others through technology, or in using technology, are limited and are not a regular part of their learning.
Teacher:
The teacher directs students in the conventional use of technology tools for working with others.
Setting:
The setting allows for the possibility of group work, and at least some collaborative technology tools are available.
Collaborative Adaptation
Collaborative use of tools; some student choice and exploration.
Students:
Students independently use technology tools in conventional ways for collaboration. Students are developing a conceptual understanding of the use of technology tools for working with others.
Teacher:
The teacher provides opportunities for students to use technology to work with others. The teacher selects and provides technology tools for students to use in collaborative ways, and encourages students to begin exploring the use of these tools.
Setting:
The setting allows multiple students to access technology tools simultaneously.
Collaborative Infusion
Choice of tools and regular use for collaboration.
Students:
Technology use for collaboration by students is regular and normal in this setting. Students choose the best tools to use to accomplish their work.
Teacher:
The teacher fosters a collaborative learning environment and supports students meaningful choices in their selection of technology tools for collaboration.
Setting:
Technology tools that allow for collaboration are always available to meet the needs of all students.
Collaborative Transformation
Collaboration with peers and outside resources in ways not possible without technology.
Students:
Students regularly use technology tools to collaborate with peers, experts, and others who may be in different locations and may represent different experiences, cultures, and points of view.
Teacher:
The teacher seeks partnerships outside of the setting to allow students to access experts and peers in other locations, and encourages students to extend the use of collaborative technology tools in higher-order learning activities that may not be possible without the use of technology tools.
Setting:
Technology tools in this setting connect to text, voice, and video applications and network access has sufficient bandwidth to support the use of these technologies for all students simultaneously.
Supporting notes
Collaborative Learning (without technology)
Students use technology tools to collaborate with others rather than working individually at all times.
- Collaborative Entry
- Collaborative Adoption
- Collaborative Adaptation
- Collaborative Infusion
- Collaborative Transformation
Collaborative Entry
Teacher is in charge of the learning. Student to student communication is not evident.
Students:
Students are passive learners, being directed and instructed by the teacher. Student participation is limited to when the teacher asks a question.
Teacher:
The teacher guides, informs, and leads the class, directing instruction.
Setting
The teacher is in charge of the learning.
Collaborative Adoption
Minimal student to student collaboration. Student are communicating their ideas in response to teacher questions.
Students:
Minimal student-to-student collaboration or dialog. Students comment on other students’ suggestions.
Teacher:
The teacher serves as a guide to the lesson, and encourages students to share different view points.
Setting:
The arrangement of the setting facilitates the teacher being in charge of the learning and students focused on the teacher or working alone.
Collaborative Adaptation
Some student to student collaboration. Multiple view-points and approaches are encouraged. Students and teachers appear to be equally responsible for the learning.
Students:
Student questions and comments often determined the focus and direction of the classroom discourse.
Teacher:
Teacher engages students in cooperative learning activities in which they must rely on each other to be successful, as well as community building activities that allow students to develop relationships with their peers.
Setting:
There was a climate of respect for what others had to say. Grouping strategies support student learning.
Collaborative Infusion
Teacher tells the students what interpersonal skills they need to work effectively in groups, models these skills, and provides opportunities for students to practice these skills.
Students:
Students are collaborating, sharing their ideas, and engaged with each other.
Teacher:
Teacher engages students in cooperative learning activities in which they must rely on each other to be successful, as well as community building activities that allow students to develop relationships with their peers. Teacher provides clear expectations for how students should collaborate, such as instruction on how to work together and explicit roles for group work.
Setting:
Technology tools that allow for collaboration are always available to meet the needs of all students.
Collaborative Transformation
Teachers provide clear expectations for how students should collaborate, including how to work together and explicit roles for group members.
Students:
Students regularly use technology tools to collaborate with peers, experts, and others who may be in different locations and may represent different experiences, cultures, and points of view. Students generate conjectures, alternative solution strategies, and ways of interpreting evidence.
Teacher:
Teacher consistently uses a variety of grouping strategies that maximize student learning and build on students’ strengths, such as allowing students to choose their groups or assigning students to groups. Teacher explicitly names and models interpersonal skills that students need to work effectively in groups, models these skills, and provides ongoing opportunities for students to practice and develop the skills.
Setting:
Technology tools in this setting connect to text, voice, and video applications and network access has sufficient bandwidth to support the use of these technologies for all students simultaneously.
Supporting notes
Constructive Learning
Students use technology tools to connect new information to their prior knowledge rather than to passively receive information.

Constructive Entry

Constructive Adoption

Constructive Adaptation

Constructive Infusion

Constructive Transformation
Constructive Entry
Information delivered to students.
Students:
Students receive information from the teacher via technology.
Teacher:
The teacher uses technology to deliver information to students.
Setting:
The setting allows the teacher to present content to all students.
Constructive Adoption
Guided, conventional use for building knowledge.
Students:
Students begin to utilize technology tools to build on prior knowledge and construct meaning.
Teacher:
The teacher provides some opportunities for students to use technology in conventional ways to build knowledge and experience. The students construct meaning about the relationships between prior knowledge and new learning, but the teacher makes the choices regarding technology use.
Setting:
Basic technology tools that allow for building knowledge are available on a limited basis to students for conventional uses.
Constructive Adaptation
Independent use for building knowledge; some student choice and exploration.
Students:
Students begin to use technology tools independently to facilitate construction of meaning. With their growing conceptual understanding of the technology tools, students can explore the use of these tools as they are building knowledge.
Teacher:
The teacher creates instruction in which students use of technology tools is integral to building an understanding of a concept. The teacher gives the students access to technology tools and guides them in exploring and choosing appropriate resources.
Setting:
Technology tools that facilitate the construction of meaning are available to students for conventional uses.
Constructive Infusion
Choice and regular use for building knowledge.
Students:
Students consistently have opportunities to select technology tools and use them in the way that best facilitates their construction of understanding.
Teacher:
The teacher consistently allows students to select technology tools to use in building an understanding of a concept. The teacher provides a context in which technology tools are seamlessly integrated into a lesson, and is supportive of student autonomy in choosing the tools and when they can best be used to accomplish the desired outcomes.
Setting:
The setting includes a variety of technology tools and access to rich online resources to meet the needs of all students.
Constructive Transformation
Extensive and unconventional use of technology tools to build knowledge.
Students:
Students use technology to construct and share knowledge in ways that may not be possible without technology. Their deep understanding of the technology tools allows them to extend the use of the tools in creative ways to construct meaning.
Teacher:
The teacher facilitates higher-order learning opportunities in which students regularly engage in activities that may be impossible to achieve without the use of technology tools. The teacher encourages students to explore the use of technology in unconventional ways and to use the full capacity of multiple tools in order to build knowledge.
Setting:
The setting includes robust access to a wide variety of technology tools, robust access to online resources and communities, and the ability to publish new content online.
Supporting notes
Authentic Learning
Students use technology tools to link learning activities to the world beyond the instructional setting rather than working on econtextualized assignments.

Authentic Entry

Authentic Adoption

Authentic Adaptation

Authentic Infusion

Authentic Transformation
Authentic Entry
Use unrelated to the world outside of the instructional setting.
Students:
Students use technology to complete assigned activities that are generally unrelated to the world beyond the instructional setting.
Teacher:
The teacher assigns work based on a predetermined curriculum unrelated to the students or issues beyond the instructional setting.
Setting:
Available resources, chosen by the teacher, are predominately textbook or textbook-like sources, whether digital or print. They are generally used without making connections to a real-world context or to the students’ personal lives.
Authentic Adoption
Guided use in activities with some meaningful context.
Students:
Students have opportunities to apply technology tools to some content-specific activities that are related to the students or issues beyond the instructional setting.
Teacher:
The teacher directs students in the conventional use of technology tools for learning activities that are sometimes related to the students or to issues beyond the instructional setting.
Setting:
Available resources, chosen by the teacher, may be predominately textbook or textbook-like sources, whether digital or print, and students may have guided access to primary source materials and selected information, data, and source materials beyond the instructional setting.
Authentic Adaptation
Independent use in activities connected to students’ lives; some student choice and exploration.
Students:
Students begin to use technology tools on their own in activities that have meaning beyond the instructional setting.
Teacher:
The teacher creates instruction that purposefully integrates technology tools and provides access to information on community and world issues. The teacher directs the choice of technology tools but students use the tools on their own, and may begin to explore other capabilities of the tools.
Setting:
The setting allows for guided student access to a limited range of information, data, and source materials beyond the instructional setting.
Authentic Infusion
Choice of tools and regular use in meaningful activities.
Students:
Students select appropriate technology tools to complete activities that have a meaningful context beyond the instructional setting. Students regularly use technology tools, and are comfortable in choosing and using the tools in the most meaningful way for each activity.
Teacher:
The teacher encourages students to use technology tools to make connections to the world outside of the instructional setting, and to their lives and interests. The teacher provides a learning context in which students regularly use technology tools and have the freedom to choose the tools that, for each student, best match the task.
Setting:
The setting provides a variety of technology tools and ongoing, independent access to a broad range of information, data, and source materials beyond the instructional setting. This access facilitates student pursuit of individual interests and emerging topics.
Authentic Transformation
Innovative use for higher order learning activities in a local or global context.
Students:
Students explore and extend the use of technology tools to participate in higher-order learning activities that have meaning in the world beyond the instructional setting. Students regularly engage in activities that may not be possible without the use of technology.
Teacher:
The teacher encourages innovative use of technology tools in higher-order learning activities that support connections to the lives of the students and the world beyond the instructional setting.
Setting:
The setting provides ongoing, independent access to a broad range of information, data, and source materials beyond the instructional setting. Robust, simultaneous access to a variety of technology tools allows all students to engage directly with others who may be in different locations and may represent different experiences, cultures, and points of view.
Supporting notes
Goal-Directed Learning
Students use technology tools to set goals, plan activities, monitor progress, and evaluate results rather than simply completing assignments without reflection.

Goal-Directed Entry

Goal-Directed Adoption

Goal-Directed Adaptation

Goal-Directed Infusion

Goal-Directed Transformation
Goal-Directed Entry
Directions given; step-by-step task monitoring.
Students:
Students may receive directions, guidance, and/or feedback via technology.
Teacher:
The teacher gives students directions and monitors step-by-step completion of tasks. The teacher sets goals for students and monitors their progress.
Setting:
The setting may include technology tools that allow students to demonstrate skill development and allow tracking of student progress across levels.
Goal-Directed Adoption
Conventional and procedural use of tools to plan or monitor.
Students:
Students follow procedural instructions to use technology in conventional ways to set goals, plan, monitor, evaluate, or reflect upon an activity.
Teacher:
The teacher directs students step by step in the conventional use of technology tools to set goals, plan, monitor, evaluate an activity, or reflect upon learning activities.
Setting:
The setting includes access to some teacher-selected technology tools that allow students to set goals, plan, monitor, evaluate, or reflect upon their work.
Goal-Directed Adaptation
Purposeful use of tools to plan and monitor; some student choice and exploration.
Students:
Students independently use technology to set goals, plan, monitor, evaluate, and reflect upon specific activities. Students explore the use of the technology tools for these purposes.
Teacher:
The teacher selects the technology tools and clearly integrates them into the lesson. The teacher facilitates students’ independent use of the technology tools to set goals, plan, monitor progress, evaluate outcomes, and reflect upon learning activities. The teacher may provide guidance in breaking down tasks.
Setting:
The setting includes access to a variety of technology tools, allowing students some choice in how they set goals, plan, monitor, evaluate, and reflect upon their work.
Goal-Directed Infusion
Flexible and seamless use of tools to plan and monitor.
Students:
Students regularly use technology independently to set goals, plan activities, monitor progress, evaluate results, and reflect upon learning activities. The students may choose from a variety of technologies when working on self-directed goals.
Teacher:
The teacher creates a learning context in which students regularly use technology tools to set goals, plan, monitor, evaluate outcomes, and reflect upon learning activities. The teacher facilitates students’ choice and independent use of technology tools to accomplish these tasks.
Setting:
The setting includes a rich variety of technology tools to allow students many choices in how they set goals, plan, monitor, evaluate, and reflect upon their work.
Goal-Directed Transformation
Extensive and higher order use of tools to plan and monitor.
Students:
Students engage in ongoing metacognitive activities, and work on self-directed goals, at a level only possible with the support of technology. Students are empowered to extend the use of technology tools and have greater ownership and responsibility for learning.
Teacher:
The teacher creates a rich learning environment in which students regularly engage in higher-order planning, monitoring, evaluative, and reflective activities that may be impossible to achieve without technology. The teacher sets a context in which students are encouraged to use technology tools in innovative ways to direct and reflect on their own learning.
Setting:
The setting includes robust access to a rich variety of technology tools and online resources to allow students many choices in how they independently set goals, plan, monitor, evaluate, and reflect upon their work.
Supporting notes
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