EDU 2022(005) Fall 2006 Teaching and Learning with Technology in Classrooms Credit Hours: 2-0-2 Instructor: Kiran Padmaraju Phone: Office – (217) 581 7879 Office: 1322 Buzzard Hall (Inside Home – (217) 531 8955 the Reading Center) Office Hours: MW: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon & 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. TR: 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Class Meeting: TR - 1:00 – 2:15 p.m., BUZZ 1430 CEPS THEME: That all students through the opportunities offered in EIU programs for professional preparation in teaching become educators who are creators of effective educational environments able to integrate diverse students, strategies, societies, and subjects. Course Description: This is a basic course to understand the capacities of computers and Internet, and the operation and application of technology for teaching and learning in the elementary and middle school. EDU 2022 is a professional education course not applicable for computer science or programming. Prerequisites: Must have cleared the technology proficiency test. Course Purpose: Students majoring in preK-8 education shall be offered opportunities to: • Practice and expand personal use of various kinds of hardware and software. • Use technology in the design of curriculum for constructivist teaching and learning. • Apply learning theory to evaluate quality technology experiences, preK-8. • Make informed judgments about social and ethical issues involving technology. • Develop strategies and commitment to keep abreast of developments in educational technology. CEPS Rationale and Assumptions for all Classes: Beginning teachers should be able to: • Design instruction to develop and utilize the cognitive processes by which children learn. • Demonstrate alternative methods of achieving similar learning outcomes. • Decide what will be learned and ways to achieve that learning. • Strive for positive development of students’ intellectual, social, and moral skills and behaviors. • Demonstrate good communications skills. • Demonstrate knowledge of past and present developments, issues, research, and social influences in the field of (computer) education. • Demonstrate knowledge and utilization of technological tools.Outcomes Specific to EDU 2022: • Review research studies of effects of the impact of technology on learning. • Describe the development of computer technology over the past four decades and implications of this history for instruction. • Evaluate ethical and equity issues pertaining to the impact of technology upon our contemporary world and elementary and middle schools in particular. • Apply terminology of the field. • Use, explore, and apply telecommunications opportunities at EIU: Internet browsers, Email, electronic indexes, newsgroups, html editors as appropriate for teaching professionals. • Use and apply word processing, database, and spreadsheet programs relating to teacher administration and the curriculum of elementary and middle schools. • Use and apply teacher-authoring programs like Power Point. • Describe multimedia-learning options available in an up-to-date school media center. • Review and apply criteria to evaluate and select educational software. • Apply criteria to evaluate hardware and peripherals. • Practice strategies for continuous updating of computer literacy for teachers and students. • Design and produce appropriate technology supported instruction. • Apply copyright laws to the school setting. • Practice ergonomics and proper care of computers, disks, and peripherals. • Design and maintain your own professionally appropriate website. EDU 2022 course purposes and topics as well as the laboratory setting assume that students will make discoveries, teach each other, and share knowledge and skills to increase the quality and quantity of class learning, and to better meet the challenge of rapidly developing technology. The constructivist model for teaching will be used in this course. Course Assumptions for pre-service students of technology in support of K-8 curriculum are: • Continuous upgrading and practice of personal skills with various computers available at EIU. • Continuous thinking of personal and professional applications for technology. • Timely completion of assignments. • Perfect attendance. • Significant communications with class members and professor electronically and in class discussion. • Diligent use of textbooks. • Knowledge and responsibility for the contents of the NCATE course syllabus. Nets Standards for Teachers/ISTE National Technology Project: http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/pdf/page09.pdf Textbooks: Cashman, T. J., Gunter, R. E., Gunter, G. A. & Shelly, G. B. (2002). Teachers Discovering Computers, Integrating Technology in the Classroom. Boston, MA, Thompson Learning. Fewell, P.J. & Gibbs, W.J. (2003). Microsoft Office for Teachers. Columbus, OH, Merrill Prentice Hall. Web site for the textbook that we are using: http://www.scsite.com/tdc2/LiveText: A requirement for the course is the ownership of a license to LiveText. Students will have an assignment in which they have to turn in an assignment through LiveText. Students who do not successfully complete the required LiveText assignment may earn less than a “C” for the course. Assignments 1. Resume’ 20 points 2. Library Project 10 points 3. PowerPoint Assignment 20 points 4. Publisher Assignment 20 points 5. Hardware assignment 20 points 6. Web page evaluation 20 points 7. Inspiration Assignment 20 points 8. Spread Sheet Assignment (Microsoft Excel) 10 points 9. LiveText Assignment 10 points 10. World Wide Web Page Assignment 40 points 11. Web-Quest assignment 50 points 12. Chapter Assignments 80 points 13. Class Assignments 10 points each Evaluation: Your grade will be determined from the projects that you will be required to do in class, completion and submission of assignments, attendance and participation, quizzes and exams. Grade Range: A = 90 - 100%; B = 80 - 89%; C = 70 - 79%; D= 60 - 69%; F = Below 60% **Attendance is required. Attendance will be taken on all class days. If you arrive late it is your responsibility to notify the instructor at the end of class so that you won’t be counted absent. 5 Points will be
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