Transcript The Technology Integration Planning Model (TIP)

The Technology Integration
Planning Model (TIP)
Kristina Couch
Fall 2007
MEDT 3401
Overview of TIP Model
• The TIP model gives teachers a general approach to addressing
challenges involved in integrating technology into teaching.
• The TIP model serves as a helpful guide on procedures and to
address issues for new teachers and those just beginning to
integrate technology into their classroom.
• The TIP has five phases. Determining relative advantage, Decide
on objectives and assessments, Design integration strategies,
Prepare the instructional environment, and Evaluate and revise
integration strategies
Phase I:
Determine relative advantage
• Focus Question: Why should I use a technology-based method?
• Teachers look at their current teaching problems and identify
technology-based methods that may offer good solutions.
• Technology–based strategies offer new resources for teachers.
Questions to ask while
determining the relative
advantage
• When deciding to use technology-based strategies teachers
should ask themselves two questions:
• 1. What is the problem I am addressing?
Do not focus on technologies, it is only part of the solution.
Look for evidence that there really is a problem.
• 2. Do technology-based methods offer a solution with sufficient
relative advantage?
Estimate the impact that others have gained while using
technology-based instruction
Consider the required effort and expense it will take and is it
worth it?
Phase II:
Decide on objectives and assessments
• Focus Question: How will I know students have learned?
• Teachers decide skills they want students to learn from the
technology-integrated lessons and design ways to assess how
well students have learned.
• Writing objectives is a good way of setting clear expectations for
what technology-based methods will accomplish.
• Outcomes on assessments by using technology-based
instruction: higher achievement outcome, cooperative work
outcome, positive attitude outcome, and improved motivation.
Questions to ask while
deciding on assessments
• Teachers should ask themselves these two questions when
thinking about outcomes and assessment strategies:
• What outcomes do I expect from using the new methods?
Focus on results, not processes.
Make statements observable and measurable
• What are the best ways of assessing these outcomes?
Use written tests to assess skill achievement outcomes
Use evaluation criteria checklists to assess complex tasks or
products
Use rubrics to assess complex tasks or products
Use Likert scale-type surveys or semantic differentials to assess
attitude outcomes
Phase III:
Design integration strategies
• Focus Question: What teaching strategies and activities will work
best?
• When teachers create an instructional design for technology
integration, they consider the characteristics of their topic and
the needs of their students.
• Teachers usually design integration strategies at the same time
as preparing the instructional environment because of the
availability of resources.
Questions to ask while
designing integration
strategies
• Teachers should ask themselves these questions while designing
their strategies:
• What kinds of instructional methods are needed in light of
content objectives and student characteristics?
Content approach
Grouping approach
• How can technology best support these methods?
• How can I prepare students adequately to use technologies?
Phase IV:
Prepare the instructional environment
• Focus Question: Are essential conditions in place to support
technology integration?
• Teachers can integrate technology successfully only if they have
adequate hardware, software, and technical support available
to them.
• Teachers usually decide what they are going to teach based on
the resources they have available to them.
• Teachers make sure their instructional environment meets all of
the following essential conditions: adequate hardware,
software, and media, time to use resources, special needs of
students, planning for technology use
Questions to ask while
preparing the instructional
environment
• Teachers should ask themselves these questions:
• What equipment, software, media, and materials will I need to
carry out the instructional strategies?
Computers
Copies of software
Access to peripherals
Handouts and other materials
• How should resources be arranged to support instruction and
learning?
Access by students with disabilities
Privacy and safety issues
Phase V:
Evaluate and Revise Integration Strategies
• Focus Question: What worked well? What could be improved?
• Teachers review outcome data and information on technologyintegrated methods and determine what needs to be changed.
Questions to ask while
evaluating strategies
• While reflecting on these technology-based strategies, teachers
should ask themselves these questions:
• How well has the technology integration strategy worked?
Achievement Data
Attitude Data
Student’s Comments
• What could be improved to make it work better?
Scheduling
Technical Skills
Efficiency
TIP Model Diagram
Resources:
• Roblyer, M.D. Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching
2006. Pearson Education Inc. Chapter 2 pages 52-62