Danielson's Model meet Technology Integration

Doug Johnson let me hook myself to his star as we collaborated on a Danielson style rubric for technology integration. Like in her framework, the highest levels of instruction have the students leading the way and doing the heavy intellectual lifting. Same applies here - when students are actively engaged with using the technology for deep learning you're meeting the distinguished mark. Doug's column on it is published in this month's issue of Educational Leadership, with a link to the rubric we worked on.

Take a look. Please, feel free to use!

Article is here
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar13/vol70/num06/Technology-Skills-Every-Teacher-Needs.aspx

Rubric is here
http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el201303_johnson_rubric.pdf

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