LoTi Digital-Age Survey Guide
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LoTi Digital-Age Survey Instructions for NEW Users
- NEW users are defined as educators who have never registered in the LoTi Lounge or taken any version of the LoTi survey (e.g., LoTi Digital-Age Survey, LoTi Survey) in the past.
Step One:
- Access the LoTi Lounge at: http://www.lotilounge.com/
Step Two:
- Click on the link that says ‘Sign Me Up!’ (in the ‘I’m a New User’ section of the LoTi Lounge login block) to complete a ONE TIME registration sequence that will both identify you as part of your group and as an individual user.
Step Three:
- In the ‘Group Information’ section, you will be prompted to enter information that identifies you with your state. This identification will ensure that the proper schools are available for selection on the next page. Enter the entire name of your state, in lower case letters, with no spaces as the Group ID and Password (e.g., kansas/kansas, newhampshire/newshampshire, puertorico/puertorico). For educators throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, use the following:
- Group ID: name of state
- Password: name of state
Step Four:
- In the ‘Group Member Information’ section, you will be prompted to enter information that identifies you as an individual user. You will have to create and enter a personal User ID and Password of your choosing. This User ID and Password should be something you will remember as you will need it to login to LoTi Lounge in the future.* It is strongly recommended that you WRITE DOWN your selected User ID and Password information as many school districts take the survey more than once and it is necessary to re-access the LoTi Lounge system. Your User ID must be at least 4 characters long and shouldn’t contain any spaces or special symbols. Underlines are OK. WARNING! Do not use “test” in your User ID. All users with “test” in their User ID are deleted nightly (e.g., “testing”, “UserTest” and “mytester”). Enter the following information in the available fields:
- User ID: your created User ID
- Password: your created User Password
- First Name (optional): your first name
- Last Name (optional): your last name
- Grade Level: your primarily assigned grade level
- Subject Area: your primarily assigned subject area
Step Five:
- In the ‘Email Address’ section, you will be prompted to enter your Email address. Entering a valid email address is necessary to have full access to LoTi Lounge. Also, if you forget your password the LoTi Lounge system can send it to the email address you provide. Enter the following information in the available field:
- Email:Address: your valid email address
Step Six:
- Click the ‘Submit’ button to move on to the next step in the registration sequence.
Step Seven:
- In the ‘Which organization do you belong to?’ section, you will be prompted to select your organization from a structural list that has already been entered into the computer based on the Group ID you were given. Select your school district from the list. Once you select a district, the list will refresh.
- After the pop-up list refreshes with the list of schools in your selected school district, select your school from the list. Once your school is selected, click the ‘Continue’ button to complete the registration process.
Step Eight:
- You should reach a page that says, ‘Congratulations! Your registration has been confirmed. Your newly created User ID and Password can be used to access the LoTi Lounge at any time. Where would you like to start?’ This page confirms that your user information was accepted and you are now a LoTi Lounge user. On the page, there are two arrows. The green and yellow arrow on the left will take you into the LoTi Lounge. The red arrow on the right will bypass the LoTi Lounge and take you directly to the LoTi Digital-Age Survey. To get to the LoTi Digital-Age Survey page, click on the red arrow.
Step Nine:
- On the LoTi Digital-Age Survey page (which should have a red background and red arrow on the page), click on the red arrow to start a new LoTi Digital-Age Survey.
LoTi Digital-Age Survey Instructions for Returning Users
- RETURNING users are defined as educators who have already registered in the LoTi Lounge or taken any version of the LoTi Survey (e.g., DETAILS Questionnaire, LoTi Questionnaire) in the past, and who already have a LoTi Lounge User ID and User Password.
Step One:
- Access the LoTi Lounge at: http://www.lotilounge.com/
Step Two:
- Enter your previously registered User ID and Password in the fields provided then click ‘Submit’ to enter the LoTi Lounge. If you are a registered user but do not remember your LOGIN information, click on the ‘Need help signing in?’ link. Entering your email address will prompt the LoTi system to email you a copy of your User ID and Password.
Step Three:
- Once inside the LoTi Lounge, click on the Take the LoTi Digital-Age Survey ‘Start’ arrow to access the LoTi Digital-Age Survey.
Benefits
The LoTi Digital-Age Survey has a variety of unique benefits that make it the leader in online technology assessments:
- The LoTi Digital-Age Survey online assessment is the only nationally-validated technology needs assessment instrument in the country
- The LoTi Digital-Age Survey online assessment is aligned both with ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers and Administrators, and with the initiatives set forth by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
- The LoTi Digital-Age Survey online assessment provides participants with specific, customized feedback in three dimensions affecting technology use in the classroom: Current Instructional Practices (CIP), Personal Computer Use (PCU), and LoTi (Levels of Teaching Innovation)
- The LoTi Digital-Age Survey online assessment is the ONLY assessment instrument that measures teacher's current instructional practices. Research has shown a statistically-significant relationship between current instructional practices and student achievement on standardized test scores.
- The LoTi Digital-Age Survey online assessment provides aggregate school-wide needs assessment data to identify current education technology profiles and establish goals
- The LoTi Digital-Age Survey online assessment includes a database of professional development recommendations that enables teachers to match their LoTi results with CUSTOMIZED professional development offerings according to their assessed needs
- The LoTi Digital-Age Survey online assessment can be used as part of an ongoing and comprehensive technology evaluation plan
- The LoTi Digital-Age Survey online assessment has been the subject of over 50 doctoral dissertations worldwide
Implementation
The number one perceived problem for teachers is lack of time. Teachers are pulled in many directions and many resent staff development that is off target and, therefore, a waste of their time. The biggest advantage of the LoTi Digital-Age Survey is the greater degree of accuracy administrators will have available to them when planning staff development according to the LoTi Digital-Age Survey results.
Over the past eleven years, the LoTi assessment has been used by over a quarter million teachers and administrators nationwide to assess how technology is being implemented in their school system. The LoTi project is unique from other technology-based surveys because it goes beyond simply looking at the use of technology and examines the Current Instructional Practices (CIP) that are also occurring in the classroom. In 2005, the LoTi assessment underwent a validation study which determined that the questions of the survey could be utilized by a teacher or administrator to determine what areas of professional development could be identified as a priority. These areas are represented by the LoTi Digital-Age Professional Development Priority Areas.
Access to the LoTi Lounge including the online LoTi Digital-Age Survey, individual survey results profiling personalized professional development needs based on five empirically-validated skill sets, and an extensive database of resources catalogued by grade level and subject area are available at no cost to educators throughout the United States. This donation continues the process of schools evaluating their instructional uses of technology for the purposes of improving student achievement tied to the initiatives set forth by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
