2017-2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2017-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDUC 7726 - Current Issues in Technology and Education


Prerequisite: admission to the Sixth Year Certificate in Instructional Technologies & Digital Media Literacy. This course is designed to provide students with the theories and pedagogies necessary to understand, develop, and administer valid and reliable assessments of student literacy learning using the Internet other communication technologies.  Understanding your students' content knowledge forms the basis for ongoing instructional decisions and planning, and forms a critical link in the teaching cycle.  Understanding of students content knowledge is gained through assessment as we observe, interact, and measure gains as students engage in a lesson.  Content for the course will include a wide variety of materials that will provide educators with a working knowledge of the psychological and sociological forces that affect adolescent readers and writers.  Experiences int this class will range from online/offline discussion, in-school fieldwork, to planning for classroom lessons.
3 credit hours.