IED 575 - Practicum in Technology in Schools

(Cr: 3)

The practicum course provides students with a clinical experience in technology, moving students from merely reading about ideas to trying them out in practice. A goal of this course is to provide each student with opportunities to make contact with and to implement a broad variety of technology theories, system designs, and successful practices. Coursework will deal with matching specific theories of educa- tional technology to present practice as found both in the literature and in rich professional experiences available among the other course participants. Students will be required to locate a technology-rich work or volunteer educational setting, as well as a mentor from that setting.