What would I do differently?

What would I do differently regarding the legal issues portion of this class if I were the instructor or if I was an administrator in charge of curriculum here at Xavier? Well, we were already told that getting rid of it completely was not an option, but that is what I would do. While I think that previous court cases in our field is very valuable information for us to learn, I don't believe that it is information that belongs in the content of a technology class and especially not a technology class taught in a one month summer session!

Personally, I don't understand why they chose this class out of all the possible classes to teach educational law. Wouldn't it make more sense to fit this into the content of other required courses in the program such as the History of American Education course or perhaps the Administration course? Educational court cases would fit in very nicely with the content learned in both of those courses required in the M.Ed program here at Xavier. In the technology course, however, it just seems to get in the way. It doesn't relate to most of the other things we are learning in the course and it takes away from learning about technology in what is already a shortened summer session.

That's enough of my rant though. If the legal issues must remain a part of the technology course, for whatever reason that may be, then I would at least present them in a way that incorporates technology and takes up minimal class time. One way that this could be done is by each student posting their legal briefs on Blackboard or Google docs so that the entire class can read them and collaborate together by commenting on each review. This not only incorporates technology to the legal issues but it's also something that we could all do on our own time outside of class, instead of using up an entire class period on presentations.

I look forward to reading what some of my classmates think about these ideas. Hopefully they will be considered by the administration in the near future to better the class and the program as a whole.