Educational Technology Foundations

Catalog description

Education 455 is designed for candidates planning on becoming elementary, middle, secondary, and K-12 public school teachers. The course familiarizes candidates with strategies that focus on the integration of technology into their work as teachers. Activities focus on candidate integration of technology in communications and infusion of technology in the learning process, record keeping, assessment strategies, and the potential integration of emerging technology into the classroom. Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of technology with emphasis on its use in education as well as its impact on society. The focus of this course will consist of a planned hands-on methodology emphasizing the problem-solving model and the model’s relationship with the use of technology in the classroom. When Offered: Fall