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Critical Accountability Factor VI: Technology

Quality Indicator 6: The institution prepares teacher candidates to use technology to support teaching and learning.

  1. How does the college/university ensure that teacher candidates are provided the opportunity to receive basic computer training or can demonstrate basic computer literacy according to Standard#7, ELSMT?


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  2. Describe the strategies used to ensure that teacher candidates are provided the opportunity to learn how technology can be used as a resource for teaching and learning.


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  3. Describe how the candidate's ability to use technology as a resource for teaching and learning is assessed prior to recommendation for certification. What support is provided to candidates who fail to meet the standards?


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Critical Accountability Factor V:
Technology

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Technology

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A. How does the college/university ensure that teacher candidates are provided the opportunity to receive basic computer training or can demonstrate basic computer literacy according to Standard #7, ELSMT?

  • Through the Campus Pipeline (links to a secure site therefore back button will not return browser to this site), FSU encourages students to use a paperless avenue for applying for admission, viewing schedule books and registering, checking grades, or viewing financial aid information.


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  • Ferris Library for Information, Technology and Education (FLITE)
    • Information Commons
      The Information Commons on floor 1 contains approximately 100 computers and provides access to Microsoft Office software, the World Wide Web, electronic library databases and online catalog, and other advanced software programs.
    • Services
      (Adaptive Technologies Lab, Computer Support, Distance Education Library Services, Media Production, Multimedia Lab)


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  • Students needing basic computer application training may contact the Academic Support Center & Tutoring


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  • Information Technology Policies
    (Policies defining appropriate and responsible use)


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  • Residential Network Support
    (Provides support for all computing needs on campus)

B. Describe the strategies used to ensure that teacher candidates are provided the opportunity to learn how technology can be used as a resource for teaching and learning.

  • All teacher candidates in the secondary education program are required to take EDUC 206 Educational Technology in the Secondary Classroom
  • Teacher candidates are also provided the opportunity to learn how technology can be used as a resource for teaching and learning by faculty demonstration through the realization of the university's goals. The university encourages the utilization of technology in the academic curriculum and has incorporated this value into a strategic direction for unit and departmental annual planning:

    University Strategic Direction 4: Utilize advanced technology to strategically extend the university's position as a national leader in providing a career-oriented academic curriculum.

    Areas of focus:
    • Identify industry standards for technology across all University programs and conduct a review of the status of technology in each program.
    • Identify the new technologies being utilized in the workplace and strive to find the resources and strategic partnerships that will enable these technologies to be brought to each respective academic program.
    • Develop an institutional strategy for information technology, incorporating both academic and administrative computing.
    • Strengthen the pedagogical skills of faculty to increase their technological instructional literacy and competencies.
    • Create greater opportunity for faculty exposure to industry practices through summer externships.
    • Improve the data systems for the management of Academic Affairs
    • Improve and or create Web-based services and communications via the Ferris Website


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  • Further, the Division of Academic Affairs prepared their Three Year Academic Plan for 2003-2005 with Goal 4 to support the University's strategic direction:
    Maximize opportunities for use of technology as a tool to enhance and deliver instruction and support communication.

    Strategic Objectives:

    1. Implement a plan for meeting the software, technology, support, and training needs required for instruction and communication in a Net-enhanced, learning-centered environment.
    2. Implement Campus Pipeline
    3. Develop a distance education strategic plan within the next year in order to determine what programs to target for web-based and mixed delivery formats.
    4. Increase the number of faculty using WebCT or other technology to enhance instruction.
    5. Improve the use of technology to communicate academic policies, procedures, instructional plans, deliver administrative and faculty governance information, and to increase interaction with all on-campus and off-campus constituencies.
    6. Identify the best practices and pedagogical standards for teaching with technology.

    Performance Indicators:

    1. Benchmark the development and implementation of Internet courses.
    2. Successfully implement and use Campus Pipeline for enhancing communication to targeted groups.
    3. Increase to 100% the number of faculty (for whose courses it would be pedagogically appropriate) using WebCT or some other form of instructional technology to improve student learning over the next five years.



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  • The School of Education's Conceptual Framework has a strand devoted to technology:
    Technology: The introduction of computers, the internet and other technologies into schools is occurring at the same time that decades of research in the cognitive sciences has increased our understanding of how people learn.As new technologies and delivery systems emerge and become more readily available and less expensive, they will likely serve as catalyst for ensuring that new approaches to teaching and learning will gain a firm foothold in schools.  Since new paradigms have not yet fully emerged, it is currently up to teachers to provide the models of technological exploration and usage. Adhering to the National Standards for Technology in Teacher Preparation developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), it is important that teachers acquire competencies in basic computer/technology operations, in personal and professional uses of technology, and in the application of technology for instruction.


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  • Secondary education courses that require the use of integrated technology:


  • Education courses that will be delivered via the Internet for Summer and Fall 2003 Semesters


  • Teacher candidates are encouraged to participate with the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) and COATT Consortiums. The School of Education is currently building a partnership with the College of Technology to prepare a computer science teaching major and to incorporate COATT certification into the program.


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  • Bay Mills Community College - FSU - Michigan Rural Systemic Initiative Partnership: Preparing Native American Teachers through Culturally-Responsive Curriculum and Alternative Delivery - Technology as a teaching resource is demonstrated through distance learning technologies, cyber mentors, and chat rooms

C. Describe how the candidate's ability to use techology as a resource for teaching and learning is assessed prior to recommendation for certification. What support is provided to candidates who fail to meet the standards?