Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum. Educational technology leaders model, design, and disseminate curriculum plans that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning.
A. Facilitate technology-enhanced experiences that address content standards and student technology standards.
5. Design methods and strategies for teaching concepts and skills that support the use of media-based tools such as television, audio, print media, and graphic.
Artifact for Standard - Audio Book Narration - Link to mp3 File Below (EME 6046, Spring 2014)
Reflection: I chose the Audio Book Recording project as a sample of my mastery of this standard because it demonstrated my ability to design a teaching method that included the support of the media-based tool audio. In this case, I used the Audacity program to create an audio version of a chapter on Scientific Notation from the CK-12 textbook Physical Science Concepts for Middle School. Using an audio book in the classroom is a literacy strategy of Listening While Reading (LWR) using technology that can be used to enhance student learning for comprehension, and is also a strategy that applies to students with special needs (cognitive or print disability) and ESL students.
B. Use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students.
1. Design methods and strategies for integrating technology resources that support the needs of diverse learners including adaptive and assistive technology.
Artifact for Standard - Assistive Technology Review (EDA 6271, Spring 2012)
Reflection: I chose the Assistive Technology Review because it demonstrated my mastery of design methods and strategies for integrating technology resources for supporting the needs of diverse learning including adaptive and assistive technology. In this case, I researched multiple assistive devices for students with neuromuscular difficulties who needed to work within the standard classroom computer. I explored local retail purchase options to identify products that were immediately available and could be used or adapted to fit her needs. It was determined that an alternative point and click device (a trackball) would enable her to use the same computers and software as the others in completing their work. I also researched online using specialized AT resource stores and found technology, such as Livescribe to help students with fine motor difficulties. As an educator today, it is vital that we are knowledgeable about the plethora of assistive devices available to learners with special needs. This will allow us to make recommendations to special needs students and help them achieve success.