I visited the site Technology Planning. This site was created by Doug Johnson. He is a consultant for school technology and for this particular write-up he did, he incorporates Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs into Mankato's Hierarchy of Educational Technology Needs. For the technology hierarchy, he gives the following categories starting at the bottom: established infrastructure, effective administration, extensive resources, enhanced teaching, and empowered students. The Johnson goes into detail about each one of those categories. I like that under the Enhanced Teaching heading, he gives you tips and suggestions that teachers can use for incorporating technology into their classrooms to most benefit the students. Then under the Empowered Students heading he gives another hierarchy. Mankato's Hierarchy of Student Technology use looks like this starting with the bottom: simple use, basic skill use, non-applied use of productivity software, academic use of productivity software, and use as a tool for genuine problem-solving.
This site would be helpful to teachers because it goes beyond just telling teachers they need to incorporate technology or giving them strategies to incorporate.; not that those things are bad, because that is good information for teachers to have. But this does a great job of explaining the importance of technology in the classroom and does a great job of displaying that visually through the different hierarchy need pyramids. That also kind of shows the stages a student will go through with technology in the classroom, starting with the most basic and moving up to empowering them. This site might help the reluctant teachers who might have been just going through the motions because their principal told them to incorporate technology, and after reading this they might put more effort after seeing the importance of technology.
Nice work
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