aligned professional development
interventions for each of these
frameworks.
The Lo Ti Digital-Age Survey is
available free to every public school
educator in the United States thanks
to a cadre of corporate sponsors. Since
the survey’s inception in 1995, more
than a million educators have completed the Lo Ti survey as part of a
research study, district technology
plan, federal or state grant, or
individualized professional development plan. Educators can take the
New Lo Ti Digital-Age Survey at www.
loticonnection.com/lotitake.html.
Turning up the H.E.A. T. on Lo Ti
Many educators are familiar with the
video based on the book 212: The
Extra Degree and its message that
increasing the temperature of our
ambitions, performances, and goals
in life by one degree can make a huge
difference. Last year, I introduced the
concept of 212 degrees in teaching to
illustrate how the amount of H.E.A. T.
we are generating from our classroom
instructional practices affects the level
of student engagement in the classroom. Increasing the H.E.A. T.—
higher-order thinking, engaged learning,
authenticity, and technology use—in
the classroom can make a huge difference by elevating the Lo Ti level, promoting greater rigor and relevance,
and, most important, engaging digital
natives trapped in a Teach 1.0 learning
paradigm.
Using the H.E.A. T. framework,
school leaders and classroom teachers
can look to the tenets of the NETS•S
when creating lesson plans, conducting classroom walkthroughs, engaging
in peer observations, or designing
21st-century performance assessments.
Whereas Lo Ti focuses on what the
teacher is doing in the classroom,
H.E.A. T. measures its effects on the
learner. Free copies of the H.E.A. T.
observation form and H.E.A. T. rubric
are available at the Lo Ti Connection
