Instructors:
| Dr. Marshall Jones Winthrop University jonesmg@winthrop.edu 323.2487 |
Lisa Harris Winthrop University harrisl@winthrop.edu 323.2583 |
Elaine Young Winthrop University younge@winthrop.edu 323.4756 |
Meeting Dates:
July 22-26, 9AM-5PM
Final Meeting: November 7, 4PM-9PM
Location:
Instructional Technology Center, Withers/WTC
Course Credit:
3 hours of non-degree graduate credit. Participants will receive three hours of recertification credit.
Course Description:
This course is designed to improve educator proficiency and confidence in implementing technology tools in the classroom. Toward this goal, participants will experience firsthand the process of planning, working in a collaborative group with peers, and learning in a project-based setting. Participants will also present the project to the class.
During the project-building process, participants learn basic technology proficiencies, group-process, and curriculum integration. Technology skills are learned just-in-time to give them context and meaning. Participants explore strategies for introducing projects, brainstorming topics with students, and completing a technology project using the expertise within their peer group.
In a project-based environment technology supports project content. Rather than manipulating curriculum to make technology a focus, participants gain experience using technology to support a curriculum project goal, learning how technology can help the user communicate ideas and improve understanding. This model process can be replicated in the classroom and is applicable to project work in all subject areas and for all ages.
Throughout this process, participants will reflect on how they, as mentor teachers and teachers at professional development schools, can use what they learn to support technology integration into teacher education students’ field experiences and internships. This includes modeling appropriate technology use, creating an environment in which student interns can practice using technology with K-12 students and determining methods of evaluating a student intern’s use of instructional technology.
Goals:
The participant will:
1. Work in collaborative groups to create a technology product related to a selected theme.
2. Make a final presentation that includes: demonstrating the technology product and reflecting on the development process.
3. Use the Internet, Inspiration, digital cameras, scanners and other appropriate tools to plan and create the final product.
4. Create a rubric to assess the final technology product.
5. Articulate how the project-based learning, collaborative group model can be used in their own classroom.
6. Develop a plan for how they can assist in the integration of technology into teacher education students’ field experiences and internships during the next school year.
7. Become familiar with technology standards relevant to curriculum taught.
8. Become familiar with technology standards relevant to teacher education.
Required Texts:
National Educational Technology Standards for Students: Connecting Curriculum and Technology. (2000) ISTE.
Course Requirements:
1. Attendance: All classes must be attended.
2. Produce an original project using at least two pieces of software and one piece of hardware related to the selected theme. (25%)
3. Final Presentation. (10%)
4.
Develop a plan for how you can assist in the integration of
technology into teacher education students’ field experiences and internships
during the next school year. (10%)
5. Design and implement a project-based technology lesson plan aligned with SC Curriculum Standards in your classroom. Write a paper in which you describe, analyze and reflect on the implementation of the lesson. Turn in the lesson plan, your paper and at least one student example of the final project. Discuss your project at the final class meeting. (55%)