Making Technology Education Certification a Priority

I would like to personally thank Mark Wagner and Dr. Shepard, who I had the pleasure of hearing at the NECC Walden Residency in Atlanta, for getting me back into blogging. I thought doing this would somehow limit my time in the final stretches of my doctoral journey with Walden University in writing KAMs and my dissertation, but in turn will do the opposite. They explained how networking and using RSS feeds will allow research and brainstorming to come to me...which saves me time!

I am now working on the need for education paradigm shifting (using Reigeluth as a primary resource) for the priority of technology education certification, specifically in the state of Alabama, as my main research agenda. Rural and inner city school systems must have a certified technology education specialist on payroll that can show teachers how to integrate technology efficiently and effectively into the curriculum, more importantly reorganize the learning structure!!

Rocci Luppicini (2005) reexamines AECT's definition of educational technologist that "these people have the ability to analyze, synthesize, and, in effect to invent [or reinvent] whole new conceptual frameworks" (AECT, 1977).

Ahhhh...I love it. I just wish the beauracy of this statement could spill over into my state department!

Stay tuned for more information as I delve into the literature...Erin