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Description: Technology emphasis, Student
tutoring recommended. This course is offered as a required
course for students seeking secondary certification. The course
is designed to help prospective teachers construct a theoretical
knowledge base and a practical conceptual understanding of
content area reading instruction. Specifically, students will
learn different teaching and learning strategies in the content
areas and will select, plan and design materials for content
area instruction.
This course is an introductory course in the use of new media
and technologies as tools to foster critical and creative
thinking in the context of hand-on exploration. Its purpose
is to provide students with a broad understanding of professional
issues related to literacy, technology and instruction. This
course focuses on infusing technology and media literacy skills
in the classrooms across grades and curricula in consonant
with the NJCCS. The course uses a hands-on approach to enable
students to have practical applications for their learning
and integrate pedagogy with academic subject matter during
twenty hours tutoring WPU freshmen and sophomores in their
academic majors. The students will explore, investigate, evaluate,
and analyze the educational software and online resources
relevant to the curriculum of their assigned students and
develop and implement cooperative, technology based learning
experiences. Students will discuss contemporary technology
issues, read relevant literature, and use technology appropriately
in an interdisciplinary lesson plan.
The impact of media and various technologies on society will
be examined. There will be a special emphasis placed on developing
understandings of what it means to be literate in a multimedia
culture. Throughout the course, a variety of instructional
methods will be used; students are encouraged to examine their
own learning processes as part of this instruction. The course
is based on the assumption that all knowledge is socially
constructed, and that learning is achieved through active
engagement of the learner. This theoretical view will be addressed
directly and modeled as the predominant instructional approach.
Students are expected to become active members of this learning
community, in preparation for their role, in and out of the
classroom, as professional educators. We will meet both as
a whole group and as smaller break out groups throughout the
semester.
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