A middle school science class is learning about interdependence within ecosystems. Their teacher has them work in cooperative groups to research an assigned ecosystem, and they use online databases for their research instead of books from the school library. This technology usage is an example of the substitution level of technology integration. To bring their technology use to the augmentation level, the teacher requires students to take notes with a word-processing tool and use additional features within the word-processing assignment. At the augmentation level, students include color-coding or text or the addition of images to augment their note-taking ability beyond what they could do with traditional pencil and paper.