Week 1 Assignment

The following are my interpretations of my the two surveys taken for my first week's assignment. The first is called the Technology Applications Inventory, and second was titled SETDA Teacher Survey. The first survey was brief and only consisted of yes or no responses. The second was much more detailed and for the most part was made up of questions that measured attitude or rating scales. I personally found the second survey to be the more effective tool in measuring technology proficincies. I actually found that the first survey gave a false sense of profiency since most of my answers were yes. However, when faced with the same questions I found that proficiency level was at the beginner or novice level. Some of my strengths are with the familiarity with technology in the workplace and home. I find that I am not only willing to implement this technology, but that I have the skills necessary to do it effectively. Weaknesses that were identified by the two surveys is that the district and/or school site have no clear direction of what they expect technology implementation to look like in our classrooms. What has happened is that each teacher has been left alone to haphazzardly use and implement technology as best they can. Also, both surveys have demonstrated a need for improvement in being able to apply technology to track student progress (other than formal assessments). I believe the findings to be accurate because I anwered honestly on all questions without fear that my appraser would actually be reading the survey afterwards. As a side note, as part of this years progress towards tech. implementation we were asked to take an on-line survey very similar to the SETDA (STar Chart). I answered honestly on that survey as well because we were told our answers were anonymous and would help with future acquisition of technology on our campus.