Week 10: Frameworks for Evaluating Technology
Week 10: Triple E Framework
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| Triple E Framework (http://www.tripleeframework.com/) |
What is it?:
The Triple E Framework "measures the degree to which the technology in a lesson is helping students meet the learning goals" (http://www.tripleeframework.com/about.html). It basically determines if technology is necessary or if it is getting in the way. The framework is based on the "Triple E's" which includes engagement, enhancement and extension of the learning targets. I found out that the Triple E Framework has some cool measurement tools which includes three different rubrics that helps teachers plan/design lessons with technology and also how to determine how effective the lessons when using different types of technology (websites, apps, etc). Here is the link to the Rubrics! The rubrics basically asks you questions that help you determine the need or success levels of using the technology for particular lessons. Here are the questions it asks you in the image below that relate to the "Triple E's".
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| Triple E Questions (http://www.tripleeframework.com/about.html) |
My Thoughts:
I decided to look into the Triple E Framework because I hadn't heard of it and thought it would be interesting to learn what it was about. I read though the about section to get an idea of what it was about which I shared a brief summary above about. Then I decided to try out the framework measurement tools by working through the Triple E Evaluation Rubric for Lesson Design. I basically just answered these questions while thinking about some lessons I have done with year that included technology to see helped, hindered or need adjustments to make the lesson effective with helping students reach the learning objectives. I basically discovered that most of my technology lessons where in the "Yellow Light" range which basically mean't that I was only meeting two of the three Triple E levels and possibly not even hitting those two levels at the highest options and thus make sure you make changes to reach that third level and/or reach those higher options to make the lesson more effective on teaching students to learning objectives. For most of my lessons, I believe that I reach the high engagement level and a moderate enhancement level, but am low to nothing in terms of the extension level. I think this is something that I could really work on for the next year to try and make sure that the technology used in my lessons extends the learning goals in some way to help them use the skills and knowledge to be successful outside of school in their everyday lives. I STRONGLY suggest that you check out this framework and see if your lessons are meeting all the "Triple E's" at a high level to make your technological lessons reach the learning objectives/standards successfully.
Here is a video if you would like to learn more about it that way! https://youtu.be/ySAhSuSQItE
Very nice post, explaining what the Triple E framework is, and a self-reflection. Can you tell us what lesson you looked at of yours that was "yellow light"? It might helps us to understand a bit more.
ReplyDeleteI look at my technology lessons overall based on what I was using and I just felt that most of them fell in that category. A few were red light or green light lessons, but on average I felt that most of my lesson missed at least one component or weren't hitting the 3 Es to the highest ability to make the most impact.
DeleteI am glad that you chose this framework to look into because it was something that I was curious about as well, but went a different route in my research for this week. Thank you for sharing the rubric for the Triple E framework! I am looking forward to answering these questions with some of my lessons in which I utilize technology in mind and seeing what feedback I receive. How do you plan to improve upon your extension level when utilizing technology in lessons for next year?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the link to the video! It was nice to have a different way to have it explained then just reading. I also looked into this framework because I had not heard of it before. I like the different levels and ways to look at each lesson or each unit with this framework. I didn't see a "light" system for the way to measure the lesson. Mine was one that was just based on points. Do you like this framework better then SAMR?
ReplyDeleteI think they are similar, but different. I think using both frameworks to evaluate lesson quickly but efficiently to ensure our technology lessons are hitting what they need to when they need to is important and we should be doing more of that this upcoming year.
DeleteIt seems like this tool has become a mechanism for reflection on your practice and not just a way to analyze lessons. That's awesome. Not to mention so much more interesting!
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