Technology
Facilitation Standard V. (TF-V)
Productivity and Professional Practice.
Educational technology facilitators apply technology to enhance and improve personal productivity and professional practice. Educational technology facilitators:
TF-V.A. Use technology resources to engage in ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. Candidates:
- Identify resources and participate in professional development activities and professional technology organizations to support ongoing professional growth related to technology.
- Disseminate information on district-wide policies for the professional growth opportunities for staff, faculty, and administrators.
TF-V.B. Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning. Candidates:
- Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning.
TF-V.C. Apply technology to increase productivity. Candidates:
- Model advanced features of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs, and utilities to develop professional products.
- Assist others in locating, selecting, capturing, and integrating video and digital images in varying formats for use in presentations, publications and/or other products.
- Demonstrate the use of specific-purpose electronic devices (such as graphing calculators, languages translators, scientific probeware, or electronic thesaurus) in content areas.
- Use a variety of distance learning systems and use at least one to support personal/ professional development.
- Use instructional design principles to develop hypermedia and multimedia products to support personal and professional development.
- Select appropriate tools for communicating concepts, conducting research, and solving problems for an intended audience and purpose.
- Use examples of emerging programming, authoring or problem solving environments that support personal/professional development.
- Set and manipulate preferences, defaults, and other selectable features of operating systems and productivity tool programs commonly found in P-12 schools.
TF-V.D. Use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community in order to nurture student learning. Candidates:
- Model the use of telecommunications tools and resources for information sharing, remote information access, and multimedia/hypermedia publishing in order to nurture student learning.
- Communicate with colleagues and discuss current research to support instruction, using applications including electronic mail, online conferencing, and web browsers.
- Participate in online collaborative curricular projects and team activities to build bodies of knowledge around specific topics.
- Design, develop, and maintain Web pages and sites that support communication between the school and community.
As I work to become a
competent technology
facilitator and school library media specialist, being able to
demonstrate the effective
use multimedia, hypermedia, and telecommunications to support effective
instructional activities for lessons, presentations, demonstrations,
and
student projects will serve as some of the performance indicators of my
competence in the facilitation of technology.
In order to remain current in educational
technologies, technology facilitators must proactively utilize
resources such
as the Internet, professional organizations, conferences, and journals. In addition, educators should be implementing
various assessment strategies when integrating technology in the
curriculum.
With consistent use of technology, educators
can remain current in specific disciplines and professional tasks such
as
correspondence, assessment, presentations, problem solving, data
collection,
information management, communication, and decision making can be
enhanced.
Technology facilitators and classroom
teachers should work collaboratively in order to understand and apply
the
characteristics of learners and the nature of the learning task to the
selection and use of technology-based instructional strategies and
presentation
techniques as well as select and implement the appropriate hardware,
software,
and peripherals for the teaching and learning task. Further,
it is crucial that education
professionals be able to clearly identify how the utilization of
technology
enhances student achievement.
Education as a whole will benefit when
educators on all levels begin to utilize technologies to access
information to
enhance professional productivity, conduct research, and communicate
through
local and global professional networks. Moreover,
the use of technology can be employed to enhance school/home/community
communications.
It is imperative that all persons involved
with educating children understand and apply appropriate attitudes and
skills
toward: