Course Objectives

This course is designed to meet and/or exceed the educational technology standards for teachers as defined by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).  Course objectives are derived from the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS•T). For more information about the ISTE Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators for all teachers, go to http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_stands.html

NETS•T are defined for four teaching profiles. To successfully earn credit for this course, you will be expected to provide evidence of competency for each of the performance indicators in the STUDENT TEACHING / INTERNSHIP PERFORMANCE PROFILE.  For more information about this profile, go to http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_profile-stu.html  To see definitions of each of the four technology performance profiles and and associated lists of performance indicators, go to http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_profiles.html

ISTE Educational Technology Standards Categories

ISTE Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators for each of the four technology performance profiles are divided into six general standards categories.  Numbers in parentheses after the Course Objective refer to the Educational Technology Standard category to which a particular objective is linked. For more information about the ISTE Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators, go to http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_stands.html
 
I. Technology Operations and Concepts
II. Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
III. Teaching, Learning, and the curriculum
IV. Assessment and Evaluation
V. Productivity and Professional Practice
VI. Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues

 

Course Objectives

  Objectives 1-15 are taken directly from the performance indicators in the NETS•T Student Teaching/Internship Performance Profile. Numbers in parentheses after these course objectives refer to the Educational Technology Standards category (listed above) to which the objective is linked. Objectives 16-20 are designed by the course instructor specifically for this course.
  Students who successfully complete this course will be able to
1. apply troubleshooting strategies for solving routine hardware and software problems that occur in the classroom. (I)
 
2. identify, evaluate, and select specific technology resources available at the school site and district level to support a coherent lesson sequence. (II, III)
 
3. design, manage, and facilitate learning experiences using technology that affirm diversity and provide equitable access to resources. (II, VI)
 
4. create and implement a well-organized plan to manage available technology resources, provide equitable access for all students, and enhance learning outcomes. (II, III)
 
5. design and facilitate learning experiences that use assistive technologies to meet the special physical needs of students. (II, III)
 
6. design and teach a coherent sequence of learning activities that integrates appropriate use of technology resources to enhance student academic achievement and technology proficiency by connecting district, state, and national curriculum standards with student technology standards (as defined in the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Students). (II, III)
 
7. design, implement, and assess learner-centered lessons that are based on the current best practices on teaching and learning with technology and that engage, motivate, and encourage self-directed student learning. (II, III, IV, V)
 
8. guide collaborative learning activities in which students use technology resources to solve authentic problems in the subject area(s). (III)
 
9. develop and use criteria for ongoing assessment of technology-based student products and the processes used to create those products. (IV)
 
10. design an evaluation plan that applies multiple measures and flexible assessment strategies to determine students' technology proficiency and content area learning. (IV)
 
11. use multiple measures to analyze instructional practices that employ technology to improve planning, instruction, and management. (II, III, IV)
 
12. apply technology productivity tools and resources to collect, analyze, and interpret data and to report results to parents and students. (III, IV)
 
13. select and apply suitable productivity tools to complete educational and professional tasks. (II, III, V)
 
14. model safe and responsible use of technology and develop classroom procedures to implement school and district technology acceptable use policies and data security plans. (V, VI)
 
15. participate in online professional collaboration with peers and experts as part of a personally designed plan, based on self-assessment, for professional growth in technology. (V)
 
16. use the computer as a "guide" to communication and research by successfully searching (versus surfing) the Internet for pre-determined information, constructing bookmarks of selected sites, using/constructing tool(s) that offer interactive assistance, evaluating websites, and constructing a rubric for differentiating good sites from bad ones
 
17. use the computer as an "organizer" for the presentation of knowledge by using tools to organize and present multimedia information (PowerPoint, FrontPage, Excel, Inspiration).
 
18. use the computer to "mediate" in the construction of knowledge by using and constructing computer-assisted instruction, participating in electronic dialogue, and authoring a coherent website. 
19. experience computer-based environments as an "assessor" in the teaching/learning process, reflect on its implication for education, and construct a computer-based environment to assess teaching/learning.
 
20. design a coherent website that allows a target educational audience to "guide", "organize", "mediate", and "assess" their own learning in a technology-based teaching/learning environment designed to achieve a set of unified authentic educational goals
 
21. present a course webfolio that achieves a set of unified course objectives