Technology Bridges
Building Technology Bridges in Education
One of the main goals of the UGA ETC is to promote the appropriate use of technology in support of teaching and learning to our service area of fifteen school districts and beyond. In our years of service, we have strived toward this goal through our preservice course, currently entitled "Building Technology Bridges in Education," or "Technology Bridges."
Elementary Technology Bridges
Agriculture Education Technology Bridges
K-12 students growing up in today's society are technology-minded.
Whether they have access to technology at home or not, students today are surrounded by a world that is technology-driven. Thus, technology is a tremendous tool, or bridge, teachers can use to reach their students and pique their interests. Our Technology Bridges course is based on this fundamental idea, and it is our hope that our preservice students will whole-heartedly adopt this idea as they experience educational successes through the technology-connected activities and lessons they design and implement as part of the course.
Mentor teacher impact
As the preservice students implement lessons with technology during their student teaching, their mentor teachers take notice, and this is perhaps one of the greatest outcomes of the course. Not only is the course affecting change in the preservice students, but also in teachers who have been in the field for several years. Many of the mentor teachers are getting excited about technology as they see the positive effect it is having on their students' achievement and levels of engagement. These teachers are seeking out ways to obtain the various hardware and software so they can continue to implement technology-connected lessons once their student teachers are gone.
Technology is more than computers.
We provide all of our students with:
- A laptop filled with educational software for their entire student-teaching semester
- Remote control voting devices
- Portable document cameras
- Digital cameras
- Interactive whiteboard software and wireless slates
- Laser range finders
- GPS devices
- Graphing calclators and probes
