Students construct personal and instructional Web pages and continue to use newsgroups and e-mail extensively. This course focuses on the role of technology in curricula and content support. Students examine existing and cutting edge technology tools in light of their relevance to and role in supporting K-12, higher ed., curricula, or corporate training. Students explore technology assessment systems from Integrated Learning systems to portfolio formats. Students determine the resource needs of classrooms and schools, and construct a rationale for the resources required to create an optimal learning environment relevant to an information and communication society.
Students develop a case study of their own institutional setting.
This course focuses on helping students acquire the concepts and skills necessary to step into a leadership role in the integration and application of technology in schooling. Topics include strategic planning, leadership styles, the institutional change process, and policy issues in educational technology. Students create and share a vision of educational technology for their school site, generate an educational technology plan that supports this vision, and write a proposal to seek funding for all or part of the plan. Students must develop a professional development plan for their site, acknowledging findings the educational change and professional development literatures. This course advances technical and procedural knowledge from previous courses and applies it to the school setting as students design a school of the future incorporating current and possible near future technologies into a plan for implementation.