Reflections over Technology Assessment

Technology assessments or inventories have been a regular part of my own personal assessment since I have began teaching. The first assessment was a technology inventory and I could answer most of the questions for the most part with little to no difficulty. Under the foundations domain I was able to say yes to all, but two of the areas. One of the areas in which I did not answer yes to was being about to know the difference between analog and digital technologies and can interface the two. I know about analog and digital, but am not clear on what they mean by interface the two. I don't feel like I fully understand what they were asking here. The two domains in which I answered no to at least four questions was information acquisition and problem solving with technology. I had strengths in those areas, but I also had questions that I did not know what it was asking or I had not even heard of what the question was asking. Examples included Boolen search strategy, creating liner and non linear projects, and virtual environments. After looking over the entire assessment I was able to really think about how I am using technology within the classroom to improve student learning. I believe that I have an overall awareness and understanding, but do have room for improvement.

The SETDA teacher survey was much harder for me to reflect on and answer the questions fully. I believe because of my current position. I am not at a school full time and I don't have my own classroom. I consult and work as an interventionist only seeing students for 45 minutes in an intensive intervention. So using the assessment from my current position then I look as if I am weak in technology integration within the classrooms. Most answers were no currently. However, I retook the assessment and based it on my last year as a full time classroom teacher my answers changed to yes on a majority of questions.