This document discusses strategies for empowering all faculty with educational technology adoption. It outlines Tiffany's journey to blended learning and introduces the EdTech adoption curve model. This model identifies five archetypes - Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority, and Laggards. For each archetype, it discusses their pros and cons as well as scenario-based challenges and solutions for empowering them in edtech adoption. The overall message is to understand what drives different faculty, recognize the challenges of the adoption chasm, and help each archetype become a positive force in the process.

1. Riding the EdTech Adoption Curve
Practical Ways to Empower All Your Faculty

2. Who We Are
Tiffany Moy
English Teacher and District Coach
Proviso Township Schools
Adam Larson
Director of Educational
Strategy
Schoology
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3. Our Agenda
1. Tiffany’s Journey to Blended Learning
2. Understanding the EdTech Adoption
Curve
3. EdTech Adoption Archetypes 101
4. Scenario-Based Challenges and Solutions
5. Question and Answer Session
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4. From 0 to 60
1. Light Bulb Moment: Student Feedback
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2. A Gradual Shift to Tech Consistently
3. Experimentation and Research
4. Chose an LMS to Unify Strategy
5. Now a District Presenter

5. The EdTech Adoption Lifecycle
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6. The Early Adopters
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7. Pros
● Willing participants
● Trail blazers
● Creative problem-solvers
Cons
● Too ambitious
● Unrelatable
● Want a high degree of support
The Early Adopters
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8. Scenario
The Innovator
The Challenge
Jane bought in to the technology
early and chose to flip her classroom.
She uploads videos of herself
explaining the lecture into her LMS,
and she uses the Office 365 suite to
encourage collaboration amongst
student groups and faculty.
Jane is discouraged that there is no
ongoing training in the district of
Office 365 and feels like an island
among her peers.
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9. The Solution
● Give Jane room
● Encourage her as a thought
leader
● Help her reach a wider audience
Scenario
The Innovator
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10. Theory of the Chasm
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11. The Early Majority
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12. Pros
● Practically minded
● Relatable to other archetypes
● Provides your bandwagon
Cons
● Slow to start
● Need most of the details figured
out first
The Early Majority
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13. The Challenge
Joe sees how effective Jane is with
using technology in her class, but he
doesn’t know where to start and he’s
been burned by edtech before.
He’s had some basic training with his
LMS and uses Microsoft personally,
but bringing that into the classroom
is a leap.
Scenario
The Early Majority
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14. The Solution
● Support him with ample
resources
● Focus on the opportunity
● Share his successes
Scenario
The Early Majority
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15. The Late Majority
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16. The Late Majority Pros
● Willing to follow early majority
● Can inspire laggards
● Skeptical (in a good way)
Cons
● “I’m fine” mentality
● Needs all the details figured out
● Can walk away anytime
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17. The Challenge
Marsha is often looking from the
outside in when it come to
technology. She already uses
district-mandated tools including her
SIS and email. She has 15 years of
teaching experience and has been
effective.
She’s been introduced to the LMS
during inservice but doesn’t think it’s
for her.
Scenario
The Late Majority
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18. Scenario
The Late Majority
The Solution
● Pair her with an “early majority”
colleague
● Identify transition tasks
● Technology needs to be a
necessity
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19. The Laggards
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20. The Laggards Pros
● Good at debunking hype
● Grounded and steady
● Can be powerful advocates
Cons
● Cling to the status-quo
● Strongest barrier to adoption
● Overly skeptical
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21. The Challenge
Daniel prefers his chalkboard over
the Promethean board in his class.
Don’t even think about pushing
Microsoft Office or an LMS.
He’s successfully given feedback on
paper for 30 years, and there’s no
reason to change now.
Scenario
The Laggard
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22. The Solution
● Start small with a mandate
● Pair him with an early or late
majority colleague
Scenario
The Laggard
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23. Putting It All Together
Understand what
drives your faculty
Recognize and focus on
the chasm
Help each archetype be
a positive force

24. See You Next Time!
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it’s second nature.
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