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Tech Class: UWB Teacher Education

BEDUC 437

Winter 2009

Teaching with Web 2.0 tools involves us in making best use of the opportunity “to share, connect, and create with many, many others of like-minds and interests;

the collaborative construction of knowledge where learning is a continuous conversation among many participants.”

-Will Richardson

What do young people need to know in order to become full, active, creative, critical, and ethically responsisble participants in a media-rich environment?

And what steps do we need to take to make sure that these skills are available to all?

-Howard Rheingold

During Autumn and Winter Quarters, we'll be exploring a variety of digital tools that can enable us to learn and to teach in ways unimaginable only a few short years ago. We'll be using tools that enable learners to connect across geographic distances, to collaborate with peers near and far, to represent what they know in mulitple modalities, to learn learn from people reprsenting multiple perspectives, and to find authentic audiences for their work.

Specifically, we'll develop skill in  using technology to support:

• Your own professional development and learning
• Your students' learning
• Communication between home and school in support of student learning

Jane Van Galen

jvangalen@uwb.edu

425/352-5332

Office hours:

Tuesdays 12-1

Thursdays 4-5:45

Readings:

Required:

 

 

 

Orchestrating the Media Collage

 

New Versus Old: Which Is The Way to Better Learning?

 

Why Blog?

Bloom's Taxonomy for the Digital Age

Why Teach with Technology?  (read at least two of the items on this page).

 Assignments:

This quarter, we will work with tools though which we began exploring how we (and our students) might connect with others digitally, while we will also worked on such skills as uploading files to the web, editing images, embedding video on websites, creating hyperlinks, and designing web pages.

 

For details on this quarter's assignments, go the Winter, 2009 Assignments page

Evaluation:

This course is graded credit-no credit. To get credit for the course, you must complete all assignments by the deadline.

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