Update #2: Your Personal Inquiry

My personal inquiry is how to achieve more consistency with technology integration in SAS’s Elementary School’s (ES) 1:1 ipad program.  Over the past four years, teachers in the SAS ES have expanded their repertoire with digital tools and focused on the creativity aspect.  Their pedagogy around tech integration is sound, students use ipads and laptops to create content instead of consuming it.  Additionally, many teachers are conscious of integrating technology in a meaningful way that directly relates to the content they are teaching.  Even though great strides have been made in pedagogy, the learning ‘app-tivities’ are not always connected directly to a standard.  While I don’t believe this is essential for all tech integration lessons, having technology integration standards would definitely help achieve some consistency.  I appreciate Dion Norman’s perspective that he shared in an interview with Michael Boll (2015).  Dion believes that by creating tech integration standards, a technology culture will be embedded in an organization.  It makes me think that the work on Technology Power Standards that James Shin-Gay and I have been leading with our EdTech team just might help the SAS ES achieve more consistency with technology integration in our 1:1 ipad program.