School Evaluation Summary

This week’s assignment had us look closely at our school’s level of technological innovation, through filters provided by Sipley and Kimball’s Maturity Model Benchmarks. This was a relatively useful task, in that it helped me to realize just how woefully lacking my school’s use of technology really is.

The benchmarks give a good idea of the potential of a school’s technological innovation, and provide a base line to analyze a school’s progress towards appropriate and effective use of technology for organizational and learning purposes. As such, they also gave me a pretty good view of the next steps to be taken by my institution in order to fulfill its potential.

The main drawback of the benchmarks is that they are sometimes quite vague. For example, in most circumstances, it is quite difficult to differentiate between WAN and internet access, and yet they are two separate benchmarks on the maturity model.

Here is the link to the survey of my school’s technological innovation, and here is the link to the summary/evaluation thereof.

Gamification and language learning

Here is the link to my Google doc, which does little more than summarize the approach I’m going to take while studying this over the coming week.