My Ideas for Educational Technology

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My Ideas for Educational Technology
M A K E A D I F F E R E N C E
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How does one make a difference in life?
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What you are now is what you have been. What you
will be is what you are now. (Buddha)
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How can the new knowledge I am gaining in the MET
program help make a difference in my personal
life, my professional career and my future?
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How can this new knowledge help me to positively
impact the lives of learners of all ages?
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When a potential opportunity is in sight it is
important to have a plan of action. A well laid
out plan is the first step in achieving a goal.
Make no little plans they have no magic to
stir men's blood and probably will themselves
not be realized. (Daniel Hudson Burnham)
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Heres the plan In September 2006 the District
Technology Resource Teacher retires.
Apply for the job
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Wow them with the education gained
ETEC 500 Research Methodology in EducationThis
research survey course provides students with an
introduction to a wide range of research
methods. Through interactive modules, students
learn about and engage with different kinds of
research strategies in an effort to understand
how research impacts our lives and our
educational pursuits.
ETEC 510 Design of Technology Supported Learning
EnvironmentsStudents in this course learn to 1)
use different theories of learning to examine
models of instructional design and 2) apply what
they have learned to their own educational
settings. This is a course that truly blends
theory and practice as a way of illustrating an
optimal learning environment.
ETEC 511 Foundations of Educational TechnologyIn
this course, students study the meaning of
technology and how different theoretical
perspectives influence the meaning of technology.
Through an analysis of technology in a globally
connected world and case studies of education
and technology, students learn how to analyze
their own local contexts, issues and concerns.
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ETEC 512 Applications of Learning Theories to
InstructionIn this course, students learn to
recognize major learning theories and apply them
to specific instructional situations in an effort
to solve instructional design problems.
Beginning with an investigation of personal
learning strategies, students take what they have
learned and apply it to their own settings.
ETEC 520 Planning and Managing Learning
Technologies in Higher EducationIn this course,
students develop strategies for planning and
managing new technologies for teaching and
learning at an institutional level of their
choice, so that they are funded, organized, and
supported in ways that meet the educational,
organizational and financial context in which
they will be used. Students will be able to use
the Internet to access and analyze research and
reports on the planning and management of new
technologies.
ETEC 521 (3) Indigeneity, Technology and
EducationThis is an important course for
understanding issues related to globalization
and indigeneity as these ideas relate to
educational technology. Practical and
theoretical issues, such as cultural property
and the dilemma of place-based education, will
be discussed in-depth.
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ETEC 522 The Business of E-LearningThis course
covers a range of topics including the slow rise
of e-learning business, the e-learning
marketplace, e-learning business design,
e-learning business analysis, legal and ethical
considerations, syndication, and strategic
partnerships and funding. Students acquire a
working knowledge of the business design
principles and market processes impacting the
success of e-learning enterprises, conduct
business evaluations of e-learning enterprises,
and learn strategies for funding new e-learning
enterprises.
ETEC 531 Curriculum Issues in Cultural and Media
StudiesNew media technologies have intensified
and transformed the way we communicate, the way
we learn, and the way we teach.  They have, we
might say, transformed the student and
transformed the teacher.  But what is the nature
of these changes?  Cultural and new media studies
are specifically oriented toward understanding
the ways in which culture, nature and technology
are converging to intensify and transform
everyday life.  This course provides a forum for
exploring technocultural issues such as cyborgs
and hybridity, digital property, cyberpunk
fiction, the posthuman, AI and AEI, information
warfare, virtual reality, third nature and
religion.
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ETEC 532 (3) Technology in the Arts and
Humanities ClassroomThis course helps students
understand the role of the arts in technology by
1) historically reviewing the development of
various technologies and their impact on
development in the Arts, and 2) examining
socio-cultural considerations and their impact
on the uses of technologies, aesthetics,
pedagogy and curriculum in New Media contexts.
ETEC 533 (3) Technology in the Mathematics and
Science ClassroomThis course offers students an
opportunity to appreciate some of the
historical, philosophical, moral/ethical, and
practical issues surrounding technology in
mathematics and science education, while
considering the implications technology has for
teaching practice, curriculum development, and
important educational issues such as gender,
ethics, and reform in mathematics and science
education. Perhaps more importantly, the course
will open an important space for creative ideas
and projects as teachers re-imagine
possibilities for teaching and learning
mathematics and science.
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The Research Resume
Show Them What You Know
Will Technology Provide a Brighter Future for
First Nations Students and Communities?
Technology in a Visual Arts Room
Curriculum Design Trades Prep 11
Curriculum Assessment SD 72 - eBlend
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Have a Vision for the School District
Pre-design Technology Plan Templates
Elementary School
Middle School
Senior Secondary School
Developing a School or District Technology Plan
http//www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/te
chnlgy/te300.htm
Technology in Education http//www.ncrel.org/sdrs/
areas/te0cont.htm
Technology Leadership Enhancing Positive
Educational Change http//www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas
/issues/educatrs/leadrshp/le700.htm
Promoting Technology Use in Schools http//www.ncr
el.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/technlgy/te200.ht
m
Using Technology to Improve Student
Achievement http//www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues
/methods/technlgy/te800.htm
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Have a Vision for the School District
Be prepared, knowledgeable and conversant knowing
the exact status of educational technology in
the district and in each school.
Teacher self efficacy is the weakest link in
implementing Information and Computer Technology
into the classroom.
FACT
Teachers do not attend evening or after school
technology workshops.
FACT
For the most part teachers are unaware of the
benefits of using ICT in their classroom and are
reluctant to make changes to the way they teach.
FACT
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Dont take the teacher out of the classroom to
learn how to integrate ICT into their teaching.
Take educational technology to the schools and
the classroom in the form of a two person team,
the District Educational Technology Resource
teacher and one ICT technician.
The Vision
Establish teacher leaders in each school that
have integrated ICT successfully into their
teaching.
Spend significant time in the classroom
connecting with learners.
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Who Do I Want to Be?
District Educational Technology Teacher in
September 2006
Why?
To apply knowledge gained in my MET degree
It will be a new and exciting challenge and I
like challenges
Lifelong learning is important to me and I am
ready for a change
Financial and retirement benefits
Improves chances of success in post-retirement
plans as supervisor/advisor to student teachers
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There is nothing like dream to create the future.
Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. (Victor
Hugo)
Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die,
then life is like a broken winged bird that
cannot fly. (Langston Hughes)
There are some people who live in a dream world,
and there are some who face reality and then
there are those who turn one into the other.
(Douglas Everett)