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The College of Education iPad Project:

Context and Goals

Context for the iPad Project:The College of Educations project to provide all full-time faculty

and administrators with iPads is grounded in the Colleges Conceptual Framework. The project

supports our commitment to the knowledge, skills and dispositions of the profession by providingfaculty with the opportunity to design, develop and implement innovative pedagogical strategiesto meet the needs of our 21st century educator candidates. It supports our commitment to

diversity by allowing faculty and administrators to engage in a collaborative exploration of new

tools specifically designed to meet the needs of our candidates as well as the needs of thelearners these candidates will serve. The role of the program in supporting our collegescommitment to technology is an obvious link. Through this project, faculty and administrators

will find themselves in the forefront of use of cutting-edge technology for teaching, learning,

scholarship and personal productivity. Finally, the iPad project incorporates multiple approachesto the practice ofcontinuous reflection and assessment. Assessment of the projects overall goals

includes a systematic project evaluation conducted by the Instructional Technology faculty.

Project participants will be provided with numerous opportunities to reflect on the use of thisnew technology and will share those uses with the campus community at a showcase in April,

2012. Finally, all participants have the opportunity to engage in research and scholarship related

to the use of the iPads within their own areas of interest.

Specific goals for the iPad project have been informed by the literature of the profession andinclude:

Scholarship of Discovery

The iPad project will (a) enhance ongoing research initiatives, (b) promote engagement inscholarship using a wide range of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies to explore

the use of mobile technologies for teaching and learning, (c) encourage participants todisseminate the findings from the research studies to contribute to the literature in multiple

educational domains, and (d) stimulate the scholastic climate of the College of Education.

Scholarship of Integration:

Participation in the project will facilitate (a) connections being made within and acrosseducational disciplines, (b) the possible convergence of research initiatives, and (c) deepen

individuals understandings ofhow their research is part of a broader intellectual pattern and

crosscuts traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Scholarship of Application

The hands-on, collaborative nature of the iPad project takes place within the context of anincreasingly global and digital society. The project will result in (a) enhanced engagement withinthe university community and beyond (e.g., P-12 schools, intervention centers, the field of

education etc.), where research and pedagogical innovations inform practices of teaching and

learning, and (b) faculty and administrators who are able to model lifelong learning and

demonstrate leadership in the exploration of innovative practices for teaching, learning, andpersonal productivity.

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Scholarship of Teaching

Through modeling of the use mobile technologies, the project will lead to (a) enhanced teachingbased on the increased use of digital technologies which promote and support innovative and

creative thinking, (b) more effective use of a wide range of digital information resources to

support teaching, learning and scholarship, (c) improved candidate engagement and content

learning (content will vary depending on the course), and (d) candidates with the knowledge,skills and dispositions to incorporate innovative pedagogical strategies and technological

innovations into their own practice.

Informing documents

Boyer, E. (1997). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professorate. San Francisco:

Jossey-Bass.

Hansen, K. (undated). Ernest Boyers Model of Scholarship: An Overview. Retrieved from

http://academic.csupomona.edu/ccsl/Presentations/ernestboyer.ppt .

International Society for Technology in Education (2008). NETS for Teachers 2008. Retrieved

fromhttp://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-teachers/nets-for-teachers-2008.aspx .

Nibert, M. (undated). 2.5.1 Boyers Model of Scholarship. Retrieved fromhttp://www.pcrest.com/PC/FGB/test/2_5_1.htm

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