Educational Technology Leaders

Instructor Sara Dexter, Assistant Professor Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy, Curry School of Education, UVA. Office Hours: By appointment. Phone/ Voice mail:434-924-7131

Course Description and Objectives

Facilitating and Supervising Technology Integration will examine how school leaders can facilitate and supervise successful technology integration and will help participants identify, use, evaluate and promote appropriate technologies to enhance and support standards-based curriculum leading to high levels of student achievement.

This course will help participants

• Use multiple models to identify and assess appropriate technology resources, and uses, for teaching and learning;
• Facilitate the use of technologies to support and enhance instructional methods that: develop higher-level thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills; meet the individual and diverse needs of learners; and create assessment-rich and collaborative learning environments;
• Supervise teachers' technology-supported teaching and provide constructive feedback on it; and
• Advocate for policies, programs, and funding opportunities that support the integration and implementation of educational technology.

Required Books

All assigned readings will be on the web.

Assignments

236 points possible: A’s range begins at 90%; B’s range begins at 80%; C’s range begins at 70%; D’s range begins at 60%

Weekly Participation (5 @ 20 pts)

This includes writing up summaries or reactions and participating in online discussions and/or group activities.

Application Papers (4 @ 18 pts each)

Each of these four papers will follow a similar format where you take ideas presented in the reading(s) for the week and synthesize them to create a tool you could use to support teachers in integrating technology during their instructional decision making (papers1-3) or provide feedback to teachers on their use of technology during classroom instruction (paper 4).

ETIPS (3 Online Cases @8 pts each)

These online case exercises will provide us a common setting for applying principles of educational technology integration or implementation, and analyze the impact of the context on how it plays out. These ETIPS assignments require a short answer response to a case question.

Integration Paper (40 points)

In this document you will integrate your four application papers into a useable tool with which you could support teachers’ instructional decision making about integrating technology. This will include crafting elements that unite the materials in the four papers into a framework; revising elements within the four application papers based on feedback from users and the instructor; and adding a commentary section to the instructor that sums up what you see are the necessary policies, programs, and/or funding opportunities for which you’ll need to advocate in order to implement this technology integration support framework.

Specific requirements and a rubric for each assignment will be provided on assignment and task pages. All assignments are to be written with clarity and edited carefully for spelling and grammatical errors. They should have logical internal structure. Microsoft Word documents are preferred (.doc) or RTF (.rtf) documents. Use APA format for citing and listing references. Suggested writing and citation style resources: - American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author & see electronic reference formats recommended by the APA http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html - Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979). Elements of style. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

School and University Policies

Assistance for Disability in Learning:

UVA’s guide about accommodations that various University of Virginia departments provide to individuals with disabilities can be found at http://www.virginia.edu/vpsa/ada-std.html See also http://trc.virginia.edu/Resources/Academic_Support.htm

Honor Policy:

The honor code applies to all work submitted for this course. The honor code states: On my honor as a student, I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment.” The issue of “aid” sometimes becomes unclear when doing research. According to the University, plagiarism is presenting another person’s work as your own. Examples of plagiarism include copying another person’s paper, restating ideas from a book or article without citing the article as a source, or copying more than seven words from a book or article without quotation marks and a citation of the source of the quotation.

Religious Holidays:

UVA’s policy on religious holidays states “When a religious holiday falls during scheduled class time, faculty are expected not to place a student in jeopardy for observing a religious custom. For example, quizzes affecting the grading of a student's performance should be rescheduled or alternative times be offered.” Please let me know if a religious holiday you observe conflicts with class requirements.

Cellular Phones :

Cell phones should not be used or even turned on during class unless there is an emergency situation that warrants it.