SSW – What Should be the Tech Initiative Next Year (9.27.2011)
– Choice: What is your favorite technology? What technology makes your day better, makes you smile, or you cannot easily live without? What technology you do not like and/or impacts you in a negative way?
– What is technology to you? Does it include non-tangible objects or concepts such as democracy, bureaucracy? Thinking broadly about technology, how does it impact the classroom and the university?
– What technological skills do you believe a productive individual, or a well prepared social worker needs to be comfortable with using in the 21st century work environment?
– What level of sophistication should students have with technology by the time they leave college? How do we help them get there?
– What technological skills should faculty have? What services should be provided to help them get there?
– What is your opinion of the movement towards transferring some course modules from face to face learning to online learning? Should we increase or decrease our use of distance learning?
– Are faculty members apprehensive of sharing how comfortable they are with new technologies?
– Are faculty members thinking of innovative ways to incorporate new technologies into the classroom? How much time should the allocate to this concerns?
– Which technologies do professors and students need to succeed? What do they have in common and what are some differences?
– What should be the school of social work technology policy or goals for this year (2011-2012), the next couple of years (2013-2017), and the decade (2012-2022)?
– What resources do you adopt from the internet to then use within your classroom or academic work?
– What focus groups could we organize in the future? Copyright discussion? Technology and a balanced-life discussion? The possibilities for mobile technologies and recent technological developments?
– Do you incorporate video, audio, and pictures, and what is your viewpoint on their use and copyright?
