Standard VIII of ISTE’s technology facilitation and leadership standards is that of leadership and vision. Â I feel this standard went along with EDLD 5301 Research course because we have to have vision, followed by research, combined with leadership in order to produce quality results. Â If you take away any of those 3 components you will […]
Standard VII in which technology facilitators must be able to implement procedures, policies, planning, and budgeting for the use of technology has been very important in my field activities. Â My key project for this course was maintaining our districts website and working to develop a better functionality of how we provide information to our community […]
Technology is easy to implement, but the choosing why and how to implement is harder. Â I have learned this over the past year helping to implement a district website that provides teacher interactivity and individual posting of data. Â Originally we had a site that I managed, but the district wanted a way for teachers to […]
Standard V is really what technology is all about, productivity as well as professional practice. Â I believe this is very important. If a teacher is not willing to use technology for their own benefit, in essence improving their own productivity then they will not successfully be able to encourage students to use it as an […]
One of the hardest things I have seen teachers do is to incorporate technology into their class lesson. Â As a technology leader or facilitator ISTE standard III tells us we must be able to design, model, and apply ideas for implementing technology to maximize student learning. While every classroom in our school has at least […]
Technology facilitator standard IV covers assessment and evaluation. For me this is both beneficial and hinderance to technology. Its benefit is that we can use technology to gain faster reporting results, provide analytics on students and break down groups having problems meeting standards. On the other hand it also becomes the goal to implement technology […]
As a former Information Technology manager I know the advantages of knowing how to use technology in a workplace. This is also true with education. If the staff do not know how to use technology or are at least technologically literate then integrating technology into a classroom lesson. Â From what I have seen in my […]
We find that in Chapter One, Technology Operations and Concepts, that computer usage in itself is a higher thinking process that incorporates multiple factors for even a simple task. educators must keep up in order to continue to teach students and other staff changes in technology related to their work. One thing that is highly […]