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What is my personal philosophy on technology integration?
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My personal philosophy on technology integration focuses on the concept of remaining up-to-date in a rapidly changing world. As educators, I feel it is our duty to teach our students with the main goal of helping them learn to become successful, happy, and healthy adults who continue learning throughout their lives. We can do this specifically in regards to technology by:
setting the example of being cautiously and wisely adventurous in trying and practicing new and emerging technologies in various ways

So when you are evaluating a student's literacy, it's important to realize you can't cloud your judgement of their skill by taking into consideration your own skill - in other words, just because they are in a digital native generation and I am not doesn't mean that each student has those skills! For example, there have been times that I've taken for granted that the students all know how to use _ (insert name of any technology tool here) because I've heard other teachers have used it or they are in a school with so much access or whatever other reason. Instead though, I went to use (same technology) and found that some of my students were clueless on how to use it until I gave them a brief tutorial. Each student must be considered individually when you are assessing their comfort level and helping to push them past their comfort level to do more with technology.
Prensky, Marc. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. On the Horizon, 2001. https://kud2l.kutztown.edu/content/enforced/619067-ITC_525_801_2012SUMMER-1/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=lAOcyZsQFlSVjj597hyjVy5sV.

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In Life Skills I work with the students on Decision Making Skills. I have a graphic organizer that I created and have used for the last couple years. It’s a pretty good starting place, but what I’m envisioning is using one of the online organizing tools to step it up a notch.
I found a few tools that could be used for this. The idea I’m trying for is instead of handing the students a graphic organizer and simply asking them to fill it out with the information, I would like to use an online tool. Ideally, I would use it to create a template for the students to complete. The students who need extra help due to IEPs or other needs would have a template that is already partially filled in – perhaps I would already label the steps for decision making and leave them with needing the information about each step? I could also give the GIEP students an opportunity to create their own organizer, rather than use the template.