Stages of Technology Integration
Entry - Mindset that what has worked in the past (no technology) still works.  Students are still learning, so what's the point.
Adoption - Mindset that one or two tools will work, but that's as far as it goes.  Seemingly, this stage doesn't offer much in terms of teaching or student interaction with technology, but the TEACHER uses it perhaps for presentations and documents.
Adaption - Teachers begin to see value of technology in students' hands.  They adopt technology for students to create simplistic presentations and papers - in essence, transferring their successes to the students.
Appropriation - Teacher begins to find confidence in technology and starts to use everything and anything for every lesson.  Technology is so much focused, but merely used for the sake of use.
Innovation - Teacher begins to be selective with their use of technology and find precise tools for lessons or find precise lessons for pieces of technology.  Classroom becomes more free for students to create and find their own purposes and uses for technology.
I think the main idea of the stages is that what the teacher is comfortable with dictates what the students are able to do in the class.  Even at Appropriation, the teacher has not relinquished total control of what is done - students are merely being asked to replicate what the teacher has done.

My Personal Interactions with Technology
It's hard to put myself in one of these stages because I'm all over the board.  I think that I revert back to Entry mode whenever I find something that works.  I have an iPhone 6+ and have found it very difficult to even attempt to use anything other than that.  I really dislike using PCs and have almost refused to even come into contact with Windows 7 or 8 opting for a MacBook Air instead.
In terms of entertainment, I've recently moved to streaming everything and find little regard for "owning" it.  I've recently moved to Netflix to get my television and movie needs, but I also have a pretty robust Uverse package.  I look forward to the day when cable packages are a thing of the past and we simply just buy and stream our entertainment.
As for production, I don't really do much with it.  I just don't have the time.  I'm really a huge fan of Photoshop and editing the thousands of photos that I take on vacations. I love to put them together into books or streams (Flickr) but rarely have the time to devote to this hobby.

My Professional Interactions with Technology
It's part of my job (as it should be a part of EVERYONE'S jobs) to stay up on technology to help students and teacher find new ways of creating and collaborating.  The most important skill that I have is the ability to fail and it not completely throw me off.  With technology, this is necessary.  I've spent so many years tinkering with various pieces of technology - first setting the time on my VCR, fiddling with a Commodore 64, setting up stereos and television systems, recording my high school band, recording my college band, mixing, sampling, ALL of it has been from tinkering and eventually figuring it out.  I have not been formally trained on anything, but have a pretty good grasp of a lot of technology. When my kids at school ask questions, I tend to tell them to look it up themselves or I show them how to find the answers - sometimes, I don't even know the answers!  With teachers, I take mistakes and failures in stride always using them as ways to learn for the next time.
I am also a huge advocate for allowing students to show understanding in the ways they feel the most comfortable.  With so many ways out there, it only makes sense.  I understand that papers are necessary at certain times during development, but for the most part, teachers I work with tend to try to lock students into using one site or creating a specific kind of thing.

Other Models
Below are a few other models for looking at tech integration and tech use within schools.  The pencil is such a neat way of looking at it.  I'm not sure where I fall, but I think it's probably near the sharp area.  I find that I work with a number of people that are erasers.  They spend the most time in the copier room trying to get those last minute copies like they have been for the last 25 years.  Even teachers my age (which is somewhat young) still rely on paper way too much and openly discredit technology because the world became different when technology was all over the place.



The SAMR model is new to me.  I really like the way we can define where we are and what we need to do to get to the next level.  It is very similar to the model we looked at for this week.  This picture is nice in that it provides us with ideas to move up the model.
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