Florida Innovates

The Bureau of Educational Technology provides districts and schools with the data and tools to plan, make decisions, and effectively integrate technology into school curricula and instructional strategies.

District Technology Resources Survey (Florida Innovates District Survey)
Who: District Technology Coordinators - Instructional Technology and Information Services
Dates: Survey Completed: Fall 2011
Focus: Instructional technology and information services
Rationale: The results of this survey are reported online to districts providing valuable data on implementation of both district and state technology plans and for federal reporting of EETT.

School Technology Resources Survey (Florida Innovates School Survey)
Who: Principals and School Technology Coordinators
Dates: Survey Completed: Fall 2011
Focus: Technology planning, technology use in classrooms, and equipment.
Rationale: The results of this survey are reported online to schools and districts providing valuable data to be used for school and district technology planning and for federal reporting required of EETT grant recipients.

Inventory of Teacher Technology Skills (ITTS)
Who: Teachers and College of Education students
Dates: Open now, dates determined by districts and universities
Focus: Assessment of basic technology skills and responsible, effective use of technology.
Rationale: This tool offers educators the ability to identify the technology skills that their Professional Development plan should focus on.

Student Tool for Technology Literacy (ST2L)
Dates: Open now, dates determined by districts and universities
Focus: Performance-based assessment of student's ability to use technology.
Rationale: This inventory helps teachers to evaluate students' technology literacy within subject area applications.

Technology Integration Matrix
Based on creating a meaningful learning environment in which students utilize technology as a tool in their academic tasks. There are five interdependent attributes of a meaningful learning environment: active, constructive, reflective, authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) has various stages of utilization of technology based on the five attributes of meaningful learning. Each cell of the matrix has a video that reflects the use of technology with a few computers in the classroom, and a video in which every student has access to a laptop computer.
http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/

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