Commitment to Technology.
The Unit is committed to the preparation of candidates who can use "instructional technology to enhance learning and personal/professional productivity." To ensure the systematic integration of technology knowledge, skills and dispositions, we require, at the initial level, that all candidates complete required courses in educational technology. Students at the advanced level are expected to be proficient in the use of relevant technology as well.
Candidates who complete EMU's educator preparation programs exhibit comfort and confidence with various aspects and perspectives in our technological universe, both inside the classroom and in the larger community. Candidates use technology as a production tool for developing teaching materials, as a teaching tool for assisting in the learning process, and as an information tool for research and learning. They experience multiple forms of instructional technology modeled skillfully by faculty; and they are afforded many opportunities to effectively use technology to support their teaching and student learning.