Technology Integration Matrix

What is the Technology Integration Matrix?

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) is a way of evaluating technology integration into the classroom to improve the learning experience for the students. The matrix consists of 25 cells.There are five learning environments within the TIM: Active, Collaborative, Constructive, Authentic, and Goal Directed. There are also five levels of technology integration: Entry, Adoption, Adaption, Infusion, and Transformation. 

Where do I fit into this Matrix?

I found it fairly difficult to determine where I fit into the matrix.  As a homeschooling parent, I do not use a Collaborative environment, but as a future educator, I think collaboration is extremely important to a student’s education. I like to have my students actively engaged in using technology. I think students need to be actively involved, or they lose interest. I am also goal-oriented. I have incorporated technology into my lessons to help my students build an understanding of the lessons.

After careful consideration, I feel the environment if fit into best is the Authentic Environment. Many of my lessons are centered on local and global issues. As a homeschooling mother, I have tried to incorporate lessons that will help prepare my son for the future. My son wishes to be a journalist, so many of my lessons focus on local, national, and global issues.

The integration of technology that I use is Adaptation. I like to assign the tools my students use, but the students use the tools on their own. For example, I recently assigned an English project that requires the use of Blogger. My son has decided to lay it out like a newspaper, and each blog is a news story. This is not exactly what I had in mind when I made the assignment, but I feel it was a clever way for him to connect to the project.

 Reference:

Florida Center for Instructional Technology. (n.d.). Technology Integration Matrix. Retrieved from http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/