TED 500 Introduction to Education Technology for Teachers

Students review recent research on effective instruction and explore technology instructional strategies and techniques designed to enhance meeting the needs of a diverse student population. Computer ethics, etiquette and safety for students and strategies for teaching these topics in K - 12 are addressed.Strategies for direct instruction, cooperative learning, student-based demonstrations, creative problem solving, guided-discovery, and applications of technology to thinking and learning are explored.Students develop expert teaching skills and learn to diagnose and deliver instructional strategies that are appropriate to a variety of classroom circumstances.This is a content embedded pedogogical course which integrates appropriate content related to student's professional content track into the projects and curriculum developed during the course.Students are required to have Microsoft Office Professional.Fall, (Occasionally Spring, Summer)

Credits

3