Thinkfinity is a great one-stop place for resources for everyone; parents, students, teachers, administrators and community partners. As as Ed Tech Specialist, professional development resources related to technology integration hold the most value for me.
The Integration Framework for Educators provides a nice guided process for integrating tech in lessons. It starts with tool selection, and ends with reflection. I plan to share this tool with building tech specialists, coaches and others so they can use it to guide teachers through the tech integration process. In addition, over the last two years, I've been developing tech integration tools for the district, and this framework is the perfect complement to that. I will add this to my collected resources and PD for principals, teachers and curriculum specialists so they can more effectively observe, reflect and integrate technology.
The Integration Framework Trainer's Guide takes the framework for educators to the next level for me. The framework for educators is a great observation / reflection tool. But the trainer's guide provides me with exactly the tool I need to assist staff on the integration process. Using this resource, I will be able to create a short series of workshops for staff in which they learn to anaylze tech tools and integration strategies. At the same time, they will be trained on using Thinkfinity. One big positive? the way Thinkfinity and the Integration Framework are both laid out, I can train a diverse group of staff from various content areas and grade levels all at once.
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