Heating Things Up w/LoTi

This week I am so privileged to be attending the National LoTi (Levels of Teaching Innovation) Trainer Institute hosted right in my district. As a certified LoTi mentor, this training became the obvious next step in my hope of spreading the word and "baptizing the masses" in all things innovative and engaging where education is concerned. Today was interesting in that as a collective group (there are about 30 of us from all over the country--Florida, Wyoming, Georgia, Texas, Kentucky) we were asked to observe and evaluate various classroom lessons via video clips as well as develop a quick--on the fly--presentation about LoTi to a would-be group of administrators. Even though the other Student Achievement Consultants and myself have been conducting sessions and mini-pd's throughout the year, no one was really evaluating us. Not the situation today! However, I am confident is saying that each group did a splendid job of providing the "would be" administrators with valuable information about LoTi and how it could be instrumental in improving student achievement.

Are you asking yourself "What in the world is LoTi?" Why? Don't you speak LoTi? If you don't, you should especially if you are a faithful blogger, use blogging, wikis, or any Web 2.0 tools in your classroom instruction/assessment, or believe that cell phones and iPods are not the be all, end all of education. LoTi (LowTee) is the abbreviated name for Levels of Teaching Innovation (2007) formerly known as Levels of Technology Implementation. These levels were developed by Dr. Chris Moersch of the National Business Education Alliance. This framework was essentially developed to accurately develop authentic classroom technology use. The LoTi framework does more than simply focus on the hardware side of educational technology. It's focus is primarily on the instructional practices with in the classroom and secondly on the technology tools being used. The framework is completely researched based and does an elegant and simple job of streamlining the majority of the "hot" issues in the high stakes accountability education world in which we all reside.

I plan to post much more about my LoTi experiences as I hope to use this blog as a communication and discussion tool for the "LoTi Disciples" I mentor at my school. But for now, I will leave you with a short look at how education before LoTi and education after LoTi...

May the LoTi be with YOU!!



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