EDT6040

Special Topics in Educational Computing
The course focuses on professional capacity while developing and sustaining local and global learning communities to exchange ideas and methods related to creative application in technology. Candidates will use digital tools to research a technological problem or practice to promote the use of existing or emerging digital tools and resources that contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of a learning community. The problem/project-based curriculum requires candidates to use digital tools to collect data/information, build websites for shared decision-making and collaboration, and design a prototype; and to demonstrate their mastery of technology skills acquired in other technology courses. Topics and theories explored include change theory, strategic planning, data-driven decisions, legal issues with technology, group dynamics and organizational development of the change process, and professional leadership capacity. Candidates will review and critique work of their peers for selected projects and self-assess personalized professional development plans. ===What an undertaking this course was. I was assigned the task to create and implement a technology initiative that could be used within my school. I chose to create an initiative that would implement the use of IPADs with special education students within our building. This initiative would have an IPAD for each student who is identified to use within their daily academic day. This project seemed very large and something unobtainable, but once I started researching and reading about the uses an IPAD offers and than the opportunities for grants through our PTO and other sources within our building, it soon became something I not only thought was possible, but something I will continue to work towards so it can become a reality for our special needs students.===

If you'd like to learn more about my technology initiative, please click on the link below.
[|IPADS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS WITHIN THE CLASSROOM]