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in Educational Media
Welcome
to the online Master of Education (Med): Educational Media
The Master of Education (MEd) in Educational
Media is a totally Web-based program that prepares public school teachers
to become school library media specialists. The program is designed
for the student who has completed course work for initial professional
teaching certification
in Florida. At least one
year
of successful classroom experience is preferred. Completion of the Masters
leads to certification in Educational Media as a k-12 school library media
specialist.
The Educational Media program of study is designed to offer skills in administration, production, instructional design, organization, selection, evaluation and research that relate to school library media programs. Knowledge and applications of both present and future innovations and technologies for education are stressed.
The online Educational Media Masters is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and approved by the Florida Department of Education (DOE). Standards developed by the 1) American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and the American Library Association (ALA), 2) NCATE and the 3) FL DOE to include the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices and the Ed Media Subject Area Competencies guide the development of the Ed Media program and are integrated into Ed Media courses.
Ed
Media Program
Standards,
Mission, Learning Objectives and
Outcomes
Standards
The Ed Media program standards are intended to meet state and
national standards for school library media specialists and to insure that
Ed Media students are effective users of ideas and information.
The Ed Media Program Objectives and Outcomes are critical Ed
Media training areas that provide the foundation for
public school teachers preparing to become school library
media specialists. This foundation
rests
on the following Ed
Media program standards: 1) Florida Educator Accomplished
Practices (FL DOE), 2) Florida Educational Media Subject
Area Competencies (FL DOE), 3)
NCATE Professional Standards for the Accreditation of Schools, Colleges,
and Departments of Education, and 4) ALA/AASL for Initial Programs
for School Library Media Specialist Preparation.
The Ed Media Masters is delivered totally online, using the Internet and e-mail, and is categorized by SACS and NCATE as a "Distance Learning Program". Both organizations provide guidance in the expectations for the Ed Media distance learning program: a) SACS Principles of Accreditation Policy Statement and b) NCATE Questions Developed for Assistance in Evaluation of Distance Learning Programs.
Mission
The Ed Media
program strives to prepare Ed
Media students for service and leadership as school library media
specialists serving K-12 students and to address
the philosophy, principles and ethics of the profession. To help fulfill this mission, the program develops collaborative community partnerships, utilizes cutting edge technology and maintains currency in Best Practices for Ed Media education.
The Ed Media program design supports the College of Education orientation toward a) the highest standards of professional development, b) best practice models of inquiry and research-driven online instructional strategies, c) close collaboration with public schools, d) active participation in professional organizations and e) the highest ethical standards.
Learning
Objectives
Learning Objectives of the online Ed Media program are
based on nine information literacy
standards for k-12 student learning designed to guide
and support library media specialists' efforts
in the areas of learning and teaching, information
access and program administration.
These efforts are supported through skills and strategies in collaboration, leadership, and technology and are interwoven throughout a media specialist's job responsibilities as teacher, instructional partner, information specialist, and program administrator.
The Information Literacy Standards are identified as:
Standard 1: The student who is information literate accesses information efficiently and effectively.
Standard 2: The student who is information literate evaluates information critically and competently.
Standard 3: The student who is information literate uses information accurately and creatively.
Standard 4: The student who is an independent learner is information literate and pursues information related to personal interests.
Standard 5: The student who is an independent learner is information literate and appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information.
Standard 6: The student who is an independent learner is information literate and strives for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation.
Standard 7: The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to society is information literate and recognizes the importance of information to a democratic society.
Standard 8: The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to society is information literate and practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
Standard 9: The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to society is information literate and participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information.
Outcomes
Upon
completion of the Ed Media Masters degree, Ed Media students are trained
and prepared to:
Identify strategies that allow intellectual access to information through learning activities that are integrated into the curriculum and that help students achieve information literacy by developing cognitive strategies for selecting, retrieving, analyzing, evaluating, synthesizing, creating, and communicating information in all formats and in all content areas of the curriculum. |
Carefully select and systematically organize a local collection of diverse learning resources that represent a wide range of subjects, levels of difficulty and formats and provide physical access to information. |
Develop a systematic procedure for acquiring information and materials outside the library media center and the school through such mechanisms as electronic networks, interlibrary loans, and cooperative agreements with other information agencies; and instruction in using a range of equipment for accessing local and remote information in any format. |
Develop learning experiences that encourage students and others to become discriminating consumers and skilled creators of information through comprehensive instruction related to the full range of communication media and technology. |
Develop skills in leadership and collaboration in order to assist teachers and others in applying principles of instructional design to the use of instructional and information technology for learning. |
Identify resources and activities that contribute to lifelong learning while accommodating a wide range of differences in teaching and learning styles, methods, interests, and capacities. |
Implement a media program that functions as the information center of the school, both through offering a locus for integrated and interdisciplinary learning activities within the school and through offering access to a full range of information and learning beyond this locus. |
Offer resources and activities for learning in their media centers that represent a diversity of experiences, opinions, and social and cultural perspectives and to support the concept that intellectual freedom and access to information are prerequisite to effective and responsible citizenship in a democracy. |
Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), 1998.