Week 2 Assignment, Part 2.5-6: Reflections on the readings in Chapters Three and Four of your text, ISTE’s Technology Facilitation and Leadership Standards, pages 57-99.
TF/TL Standard III assist teachers in the ongoing development of knowledge, skills, and understanding of technology systems that are aligned with district and state technology plans. ISTE’s standards are a warehouse of information in preparing candidates to serve as campus technological facilitators. In completing the ETL program, I will be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to teach technology applications; with a leverage of comfort and the ability to prove my advanced skills to effectively use technology to support student learning; and provide professional development, guidance, and basic technical skills for assisting, other teachers who require support in their efforts to apply technology to support Grades K-12 student learning. Technology is a major component of a constructivist approach and should be integrated throughout the curriculum (McRae, 2001).
Over the years, K-12 education, professional development for teachers in the area of technology integration has focused on the technology itself and the curriculum. The technologies have been added on, rather than integrated into the curriculum (Gosper, McNeil, Phillips, et al. 2010). Authors Duran E, Duran, B, and Worch (2009), indicated that curriculum integration continues to be a powerful strategy to meet this challenge, teachers often find it difficult to bridge the gap between theorical models of integration and classroom implementation. Educators today, need to separate themselves from the past and accept technology as an integral part of the education system of the 21st Century. With multi-media and digital resources igniting our learning community; the design of curriculums and student awareness about the Web 2.0 tools, as teachers we must recognize what we are teaching and deliver practical knowledge content and adopt a new curriculum design for our learners.
References
Duran, E., Ballone Duran, L., &Worch, E.A. (2009). Papier-Mache Animals: An Integrating Theme for Elementary Classrooms. Science Education Review, 8(1), 19-29.
Gosper, M.M., McNeil, M.M., Phillips, R.R., Preston, G.G., Woo, K.K., & Green, D.D. (2010). Web-Based Lecture Technologies and Learning and Teaching: A Study of Change in Four Australian Universities. ALT-J: Research In Learning Technology, 18(3), 251-263.
McRae, P. (2001, January 1). Increasing the Integration of Technology into the Fourth-Grade Curriculum Using Teacher/Media Specialist Collaboration in Planning Student Research Activities.
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