Technology Integration Matrix: TIM in Practice

Use the Technology Integration Matrix to examine meaningful learning characteristics alongside levels of technology integration, then choose a purposeful next move.

• TIM is a matrix, not a ladder — Separate meaningful learning characteristics from levels of technology integration.
• Active: learners use technology as a thinking medium — Look beyond operating a device to what learners are doing with ideas, data and representations.
• Collaborative: technology supports interdependent thinking — Shared space is not the same as collaboration.
• Constructive: technology helps learners connect new ideas to what they know — Use digital environments to externalise, revise and reorganise understanding.
• Authentic: technology connects learning to meaningful contexts — Use technology to bring real data, audiences, problems and practices into the learning.
• Goal-directed: technology helps learners plan, monitor and revise — Make goals, criteria and progress part of learner decision-making.
• Use the levels to choose a next move, not chase transformation — Entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion and transformation describe increasing independence and possibility.