Friday Matinee: Triple E Framework Extended Learning

The last component of the Triple E Framework is to use technology to extend learning to connect students to the real world.  Extended learning includes creating opportunities for students to learn outside of school and create a bridge between what they are learning and daily life.  This can also include learning non-content or soft skills.

Triple E Level 3: Extended Learning

Be sure to check the Extended Learning Checklist and think through these questions as you plan lessons for your students that include technology.

Have a super great weekend!

Friday Matinee: Triple E Framework Enhanced Learning

The second component of the Triple E Framework is to evaluate a lesson to see if the technology is enhancing it or having the students do something that would not be easily done in a traditional lesson.  Enhanced learning happens when the technology creates opportunities for creation or production over consumption of knowledge, creates scaffolds to help students understand concepts or ideas, and creates paths for students to demonstrate their learning in ways that couldn't be done with traditional tools.  

Triple E Level 2: Enhanced Learning

Be sure to check the Enhancement Checklist and think through the questions as you plan lessons where you are infusing technology.

Friday Matinee: Triple E Framework Engaged Learning

So we've looked at the Triple E Framework and even evaluated a few of our own lessons.  To do a better job of evaluating how we are teaching with technology, we need to delve deeper into each part of the Triple E.  This week we are going to look at the first E, Engagement.  It's one component of technology integration and we often embed it thinking that we are engaging our students.  What we really need to know is if it is engaging our students in the content and not just the tech.

Triple E Level 1: Engaging Learning

Make sure you check out the Engagement Checklist on the webpage.  Thinking through these questions will help you determine if the technology is engaging your students in the right way.

Friday Matinee: The Triple E Framework

Now that the spring semester has wound down, I would like to ask you to take a look at a video from a book study on the book, "Championing Technology Infusion in Teacher Preparation: A Framework for Supporting Future Educators".  The International Society for Technology in Education's (ISTE) Teacher Education Network (TEN) is conducting the book study that includes each of the contributor's to the book.  Recently this session was presented by Liz Kolb, an associate professor at The University of Michigan and she talked about several frameworks for teaching with technology, including one she developed herself called The Triple E Framework.  I'm including the video from the book study to introduce you to her framework.

Webinar 4: Frameworks for Technology Integration

No matter what you teach, the Triple E Framework will help you do a better job of infusing technology into your teaching.