LoTi Framework

M04RTY PRODUCTIONS

MSc. Raúl Mora Rodríguez

English Teacher

LoTi Framework

March 9th, 2019

taken from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h1L6Kz0qJQpQhySIbKuw5qQPReJsXQ-c/edit 

What is a LoTi Framework?

The LoTi Framework can be considered as the rubric in which any teacher is able to manage technology on the class. This rubric is divided into six different levels each level corresponds to a different level of improvement. Every single level determines what the teacher or the user can do with technology or computers. The levels describe deeply every aspect. Nonsense is considered as level 0, Awareness is level one, Exploration is level 2, Infusion is level 3, Mechanical Integration and Routine Integration are the levels number 4, Expansion is considered as level 5 and Refinement is considered as the maximum level for this rubric. Now the question is in which level are you?

Level	Category	Description
0	Non-Sense	Learning experience is not standards-based. There is no knowledge on the topic.
1	Awareness	Resources are not used or used by teacher to enhance lectures, there is no technology involved to catch student’s attention.
2	Exploration	Resources are used by students or the teacher for information gathering or extension activities, little implementation of technology.
3	Infusion	Products emphasize complex thinking skill strategies (problem solving), technology is pretended to be applied.
4	Integration	Teacher and Student are fully engaging in self-directed problem-based learning. There is more implementation of technology in the class.
5	Expansion	Products are authentic and solve student-centered problems using all available resources. Teacher and students can create productions using technology.
6	Refinement	Products are innovative, authentic, and extend beyond conventional strategies. At the same time both, teacher and students are more than capable to create new and authentic content using technology.

Self-Evaluate

According with the previous chart is hard to make a decision to classify myself in one of the previous categories because personally I consider that I am able to create great digital content using a computer for example I consider myself in the expansion level, however if I take into account the usage that I give to technology in the classroom and how much are my students to create I would say that we are in a exploration stage.

Steps to follow

For next year I would like to be in a refinement stage and be able to create great content for my personal purposes but at the same time to be able to introduce even more technology with my students. The steps to follow are simple I am going to continue studying on different fields like audiovisual creation and prepare my self to be a graphic designer.

Final Remarks

Nowadays technology is everywhere we are going, for example in restaurants, hospitals, in our houses but even more important for us in our schools, and as teachers we must realize that technology is an amazing tool to teach. Many sources of information computers and internet are today’s weapons for many teachers worldwide. Besides this technology became more powerful every day, that it will be the day that notebooks and pencils will no longer required to teach, and everything will be with the use of computers, tablets and laptops. But until that day comes is a difficult fight for teachers to get access to this kind of technology because not in all schools, students had the opportunity to have a computer laboratory where to study, make research and to get access to the internet. Because in many schools there is no money to finance computers labs, because most of these equipment is really expensive to maintain and not just to maintain also to buy and to get qualified teachers to teach students, because computer labs always needs to have the best equipment possible to teach, besides it need to had good internet connection to use online software some that are for free, but basically one of the problems to introduce technology to the classrooms is that all the equipment required is really expensive.