Standard TF V Productivity and Professional Productivity |
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Educational technology facilitators apply technology to enhance and improve personal productivity and professional practice. Educational technology facilitators: A. Use technology resources to engage in ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. Candidates: 1. identify resources and participate in professional development activities and professional technology organizations to support ongoing professional growth related to technology. 2. disseminate information on district-wide policies for the professional growth opportunities for staff, faculty, and administrators. B. Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning. Candidates: 1. continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning. C. Apply technology to increase productivity. Candidates: 1. model advanced features of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs, and utilities to develop professional products. 2. assist others in locating, selecting, capturing, and integrating video and digital images in various formats for use in presentations, publications, and/or other products. 3. demonstrate the use of specific-purpose electronic devices (such as graphic calculators, language translators, scientific probeware, or electronic thesaurus) in content areas. 4. use a variety of distance learning systems and use at least one to support personal/professional development. 5. use instructional design principles to develop hypermedia and multimedia products to support personal and professional development. 6. select appropriate tools for communicating concepts, conducting research, and solving problems for an intended audience and purpose. 7. use examples of emerging programming, authoring or problem-solving environments that support personal/professional development. 8. set and manipulate preferences, defaults, and other selectable features of operating systems and productivity tool programs commonly found in PK-12 schools. D. Use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community to nurture student learning. Candidates: 1. model the use of telecommunications tools and resources for information sharing, remote information access, and multimedia/hypermedia publishing in order to nurture student learning. 2. communicate with colleagues and discuss current research to support instruction, using applications including electronic mail, online conferencing, and Web browsers. 3. participate in online collaborative curricular projects and team activities to build bodies of knowledge around specific topics. 4. design, develop, and maintain Web pages and sites that support communication between the school and community. | ||
Reflection V
The SLMS is the technology leader of any school. Keeping up with new and ever changing technology is the most challenging aspect of this job. Not only are we keeping up with technology, we are disseminating which technologies have classroom applications, assessment application, communications applications and educational applications for our staff and our students. We are not only finding new applications, but we are more importantly, using new applications and encouraging our teachers to do the same. We want our students to see us facing the challenge of new technologies and applications so that they might model that same behavior. I have included a link to the Blackboard site that I use almost daily in my quest for higher education. I am getting my masters at NJCU and participate in online learning which includes collaboration, communication, and remote access in my journey toward professional development. I have a library website that I have developed which includes information for students, staff and parents. I have included information that will teach parents more about what their children are learning with regard to technology. They will be able to learn what their children are learning and be better able to support them at home. There is also information for teachers that will lead them toward developing better technology skills. The purpose of this website is to increase the technology knowledge base of students, staff and parents. We are a much better team for our children if we are all growing. I have also included a webquest that I developed with a colleague in the Masters program at NJCU. The webquest is the means by which students participated in a NJ state report unit. The webquest requires the students to use this new medium to communicate, present and edit their work. They can use still images, video and audio as part of the design of their site. ALA Standard 3 states our students should “Create products that apply to authentic, real world contexts.” They should also “Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use and assess.” (ALA/AASL p. 6) Our students need to be continually challenged to present their work using 21st century technologies.
ALA/AASL, (March 2003). ALA/AASL Standards. Retrieved October 2, 2010, from ALA web site: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/AASL Learning_Standards_2007.pdf
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