Researchers and professors continually work to find out how students best learn and prepare new teachers to be ready for new technology. We are constantly looking into the future to see what technologies are being experimented with that would be effective in learning. What it all comes down to is having the best resources and capabilities for someone who is motivated and willing to learn and someone who is motivated to guide them. The Technology Resources Center, born when the School of Education moved into the new Liberal Arts and Education Building in 1993, is a consolidation of several resource collections from various areas of the school, Frederick says. They evaluate lesson plans and develop their own based on what they've seen.
Advanced students work to create new technologies and new programs to enhance learning.
Frederick says all areas of the School of Education utilize the center - elementary and secondary education, special education, social studies education, counseling, and educational administration. We want them to continually work to find the most effective ways of teaching and learning. We want them to continue evolving as educational professionals involved in the teaching and learning process. Students in Charles Elster's classes spend quite a lot of time in the TRC, he says, to learn how to use the materials they will have in the classroom. He says the resources there and in the Shared Information Services Library in the Gifted Education Resource Institute are essential for future teachers.