In classroom observations, the researcher observed students’ use of technology in
two of the three classroom settings showing some alignment with district expectations.
The researcher used the Observation Tool (Appendix C) as a guide in the investigation of
21 st century technology integration. Teacher 1, the science teacher, conducted what was
called a web-quest or a digital worksheet where students with their partners researched
various websites provided by the teacher to gather information about the lesson objective.
The partners did not have specified roles and the researcher observed many pairs where
one partner took the lead in the task. The information students gathered however, was
categorized as level one or two on Bloom’s Taxonomy (Bloom, 1956). This type of
recalling information that can easily be looked up in a one-dimensional process does not
describe the type of rigorous learning that the 21 st century instructional framework
promotes.