LoTI, My Project, and Me

These LoTI standards seem pretty hard to meet, to be honest. I'm not sure that I completely understand them. They are fairly complex and don't seem that toned down for laypeople. Maybe they just hit me on a bad day! Anyway, I am very concerned about my project going up high on the LoTI scale. I'd love to reach a four or a five, but it seems like it might be hard to integrate that because I'm going to be teaching this in a classroom that's not my own. I will be working in my friend Dana Buxton's classroom at Morgan County High School, and there is a Smartboard in her room as well as a number of computers. I haven't seen the technology yet, but I am kind of at the whim of her classroom and her methods of teaching. I have a feeling that I might have to tone down my level of technology integration because it's not my classroom, but I'm wondering if that's just me being gunshy!

We haven't really discussed the topic yet, so it's going to be hard to judge LoTI, but I know that I talk a pretty good game about creativity and stuff, but, in my limited teaching experience, I've mainly supplanted traditional methods of instruction with technology, rather than using technology for more interesting pedagogy. It's a problem that all educators struggle with, I imagine, and though I consider myself pretty creative, it's hard for me to break out of the rut of my previous educational experience. One thing that messes me up is that I like teacher-centered education. I never really had a problem with lecture, chalk, and talk, even though I know it does a disservice to tons of other students. I guess to achieve a higher LoTI level, I have to really push myself and think about the project in terms of how technology can serve it. Is technology really helping?