Darryl Said:

help me with my research entitled the effectiveness of assistive technology in teaching visually impaired?

We Answered:

I assume that this a college project. If so, your school will have the ERIC database available to you, including its special education supplement. Here you can search for journal articles and other publications on your subject.

If you go to www.eric.ed.gov, you will get to the basic indexing publication. Suggest you click Advanced Search. In the three Keywords boxes you could search
assistive devices
visual impairments
effectiveness
and see if the publications that are retrieved are useful. Then modify your search as seems appropriate.

Miriam Said:

What should my masters degree be in if I want to be a college professor teaching medical technology?

We Answered:

Be careful how you accomplish your goal - you could limit yourself.

Teaching med technology is a vocational teaching appointment so it's different than teaching on the academic side of the college. The degree required to teach those courses isn't a master's in the subject - it's a bachelor's with experience/certification in the field. The need for a master's degree is only because you're competing for jobs with people that have one - it's not required at that level.

BUT, the natural sciences are close to your field so some professors teaching med technology might also like to teach biology, biochemistry, chemistry, etc... to students that aren't med tech majors as well as teaching the med tech (more classes = more money). In fact, some colleges might only hire med tech instructors that are qualified to do both.

The requirement to teach an academic course is "a master's degree in the subject or a master's degree plus 18 grad hours in the subject". So, if you get an MS in Biology then you can teach biology - if you get an MEd in Ed Technology then you can teach Ed Technology.

If you're also qualified to teach med technology by virtue of your undergrad and certs/experience then having an master's in anything helps with the job competition but doesn't necessarily add any teaching work. You'll need some grad hours in the content area you want to teach (community colleges don't teach much ed technology) in addition to that MEd.

An ed degree at this level does focus on teaching but it does so by presenting educational theory and what is known as "materials and methods" so research is still the focus of the program, it's just research in education instead of science.

Doing an MEd in Adult Education can open another door for you besides the community college though and it pays a little better. Trainers with advanced credentials are not all that easy to find. Your hospital has some for example - usually nurses in a hospital but not always. Remember though - that MEd is designed to make you a better teacher/trainer but doesn't provide any content area specialization. If you only focus on teaching adults then you're qualified to teach adults about teaching adults. This type of MEd program rarely includes much student teaching experience - it's all about the theories of pedagogy and androgogy.

If you already had a teaching appointment then I'd say the MEd route would work to enhance your qualifications but since you're looking for that appointment - an MS in one of the sciences will get you a job faster. An MS in math would be even quicker to the job.

Steve Said:

Teaching and Technology? Grades 4-9?

We Answered:

I maintain my school's website and there are a lot of educational internet based games there.

http://www.greentreegators.com/

Click GT links

Jonathan Said:

Isn’t it high time that we integrate technology with teaching?

We Answered:

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

But yes.

Throwing technology at a 'problem' is not the answer. Teachers may not know how to use tech. The tech has to Integrated so the student does not notice the technology. This is very difficult to do.

Example: power points, some teachers do horrid ones. All kinds of cute animations and unneeded garbage in the way. You want to see how to do a powerpoint? Watch Steve Jobs, find his stuff on itunes or on apple.com website. Limited animations, things the explain without repeating. Do not read the %*#))*%# stoopid slide.

I am perhaps the MOST TECHNOLOGY savvy teacher I know. I know more than the tech coordinators at school. This includes working at 4 different schools in 6 years. I have over 20 years of paid computer experience, doing just about everything.

When tech gets in the way of teaching it is not useful and is worse than having no tech in the classroom.

Leroy Said:

DOES TEACHING THE PHILIPPINE TECHNOLOGY A SALVATION OR A SCARE?

We Answered:

The PHILIPPINE TECHNOLOGY is A SALVATION! The only thing you don't do is remove the last 0.01% of contamination from your reclaimed water.