Competencies
Rashidah Z. Hakeem (rzhakeem@mecca.mecca.org)
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:27:49 +0000
Steve Bauman's discussion of "Technology and Teacher
Change" brought the question of whether or not there is
or should be a core list of technologically related
competencies that would enable all teachers, regardless of
discipline or area of study, to use electronic commuication
tools effectively in developing curriculum, creating lessons,
teaching classes and evaluating the programs in which
each is involved.
Having specified online documentation (web publishing,
archived e-mail, message boards, electronic portfolios).... as
helpful in reflecting and crystallizing the changes that are
taking place, what would be the value of each in
establishing standards and baseline competencies? Given
the nature of web publishing for instance, how much
understanding of HTML would be sufficient to develop
curriculum or create lessons or teach classes in web
publishing? What else would one need to know in order to
put the "new pedagogy in action"?