Teaching With Modern Web Technologies

Catalog description

Relates educational theory and practice to applications of the modern Web, applying content from educational foundations, curriculum, and research. EDUC 463 Teaching With Modern Web Technologies (3) This course focuses on the World Wide Web as a valuable resource for P-12 education. Designed for teachers, curriculum supervisors, and building administrators, this course relates educational theory and practice to applications of the Web and Web 2.0 technologies in classrooms and schools. Class participants apply resources available through the Web to content from the fields of educational foundations, learning theories, curriculum development, educational assessment and evaluation, and educational research. The impact that the Web and technology in general has had on the educational experience of both teachers and students, including the working relationship between the two, is also a main focus. Students maintain a documentation of weekly assignments that form the basis for the final project: the development of a web-based teaching portfolio. Students also complete a mid-term project that entails the design of an online learning activity for students that utilizes Web technologies. This activity requires the student to apply principles of learning theory to web-based resources identified and evaluated to support an identified classroom learning objective or set of objectives. The final project consists of a technology-based teaching portfolio, demonstrating application of the key concepts covered in the course.