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=Examining the Tiers of Technology Integration - Course Overview=

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Course Description:
This asynchronous online lesson focuses on giving students a working knowledge of the Tiers of Technology Integration used by Washington State to measure the level of technology integration. Lecture notes including the history of the tiers, Washington state reporting requirements, and a variety of sample lessons for each tier are posted on the class wiki.

Lesson Plan Description:
Students will read the lecture notes, viewing sample lessons at each tier level. Students will take the PILOT survey of Technology Integration. Students will then take a SurveyMonkey quiz, categorizing additional sample lessons according to the Tiers. The Quiz will be completed by a class deadline. After each student has taken the quiz, the instructor will post a compilation or anonymous list of results to the discussion page on the class wiki. Students will participate in a discussion based on agreement or disagreement with the quiz results. Finally students will briefly outline 2 technology integrated lessons that fall into the Tier 2 level of integration, and 2 lessons that fall into Tier 3. These lessons will be emailed to the instructor, listed by intended tier. The lessons will also be posted in the discussion group __without__ listing the intended tier. Each student will be assigned to score two other students’ lessons and post their evaluation.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session you will be able to:
 * determine your current level of technology integration based on the Tiers of Technology Integration
 * determine the level of technology integration in which sample lessons would fall

Learner-centered Outcomes:

 * 1) Categorize sample lessons by Tier level
 * 2) Outline two lessons appropriate for your teaching assignment that fall into the Tier 2 level of integration
 * 3) Outline two lessons appropriate for your teaching assignment that fall into the Tier 3 level of integration

Assessment:

 * 1) Students will take a quiz using SurveyMonkey categorizing sample lessons into Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3. Individual scores will be analyzed by the student and instructor. Compilation reports will be analyzed and used to facilitate a discussion about the categorization of lessons.
 * 2) Each of the 4 lesson outlines will be assessed by two other members of the class using the Tiers of Technology Integration grid used earlier in the lesson. Assessing peers will not know the intended tier. Comparisons will be made between the intended tier of each lesson and the tier determined by peer review.