THEME: COLLABORATION In order to best prepare students of today
for life after high school, educators need to make sure that the students have
an understanding of how to effectively collaborate on tasks to make sure that
the desired result occurs. Businesses today expect that their employees
will be able to work together to achieve a common goal. In today's world,
more and more of this collaboration is taking place through the use of
technology. In order for teachers to be able to teach students how to use
technology to collaborate, the teachers first must have an understanding of what
technology is available and also how to use this technology. Many of the
courses that are a part of the MSET program have involved some aspect of
collaborative work.
The following goals were met under the Collaboration theme:
- Students will be leaders in educational technology.
- Students will be current in teaching and learning processes and
practices.
- Students will be current in research technologies and designs.
- Students will be knowledgeable of current, technology-based educational
tools and products.
The following goals were met under the Collaboration theme:
- Students will demonstrate proficiency in teaching and assessing others
in the use of computers and related technologies in a variety of educational
settings.
- Students will be aware of current trends and issues in computer
education, distance education, electronic communications, computer hardware
and software.
- Students will apply learning theory and the principles of instruction
design in curricular and instructional decision-making.
- Students will be proficient in finding, evaluating, and using current
educational research to support continuous improvement in their profession.
- Students will use telecommunications-based tools to integrate
information into the classroom and the curriculum.
- Students will integrate computer software, authoring tools, programming
languages, the Internet, and multimedia into curriculum design and
instruction.
Completed courses that relate to this theme include: