Comparing pre-service technology standards with technology skills of special educators in southwestern Michigan.

International Journal of Instructional Media, September, 2005 by Alobiedat, Ahmad

INTRODUCTION

Many colleges of education in the United States have recently elected to create, or adopt, "technology standards" by which to measure the abilities of their pre-service teacher graduates. The College of Education at Western Michigan University is one of those schools elected to adopt technology standards. The pressure to adopt technology standards has come from a variety of sources, including the public schools who are hiring new graduates and want them to have extensive technology skills, professional groups that are advocating the need for more technology skills by K-12 students and greater use of, or integration of information technology by schools, and from legislative groups frustrated by the lack of progress many schools are making in the...

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