Introduction To Educational Technology

  EME2040

Prof. Joseph D. McNair

Please Read: See Course Syllabus You are required to complete Ten (10) Reflection Papers (200pts) 2 study handouts (60 pts) 2 Behaviorist Lesson Plans (120pts) 2 Constructivist Lesson Plans (120pts) 2 Transpersonal Lesson Plans (120pts) 1 Telecollaborative Lesson Plans (60 pts) 2 digital stories (120) 1 Inquiry lesson Lesson Plan (60 pts) 1 Student data base documents with names, addresses, phone numbers and pictures (60pts) 1 Student Commercial Gradebook based on student data base (100 pts) 2 Individual Power Point presentation (200pts) 1 digital portfolio (300pts)          Assignments are due on the dates specified in WEBCT Assignment Box.  Assignments must be up-loaded first to turnitin.com for a plagiarism check and then to WEBCT and student must provide evidence of completed assignment by having a copy on jump drive or CD-RW to present on demand. Reflection papers must be 25 lines typed, with one inch margins on the sides and a font (Arial or Times New Roman) size no larger that 12 point. Any reflection paper less than 25 lines will be penalized as many as 3 points. Any assignment that does not meet specified performance criteria will be penalized. Make sure you understand what is being asked of you. Late assignments will be penalized at a minimum of 10%. I do accept work late but it will result in the loss of points. Please use Microsoft Word (Do not use Microsoft Works!)  Late reflections will be penalized 3 points. All assigned student work will be saved into a digital portfolio and submitted as the final exam at the end of the term. The portfolio is a web site saved to a CD-RW disk. All links to the reflections and assignments must work. Incomplete portfolios will not be accepted. Attendance:  Attend 85% of scheduled classes to receive grade earned in the class.  (This means no less than 41  fifty (50)minute classes on  Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,  twenty-six (26) seventy-five (75) minute classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and  thirteen (13) one hundred sixty minute (160) on any given day or night. You must be in class before fifteen (15) minutes past the start time has elapsed. You will not be admitted after fifteen (15) minutes unless you have received prior permission by the professor.
Week One and Two Register for Webct Reflection 1: What is a Lesson Pan : Student will write a reflection paper on the various definitions of a lesson plan . Review (1) (2) (3) (4) Behaviorist, Cognitivist and Constructivist Theories Behaviorist/ Constructivist Learning Design Approaches Behaviorist Lesson Plan Strategies for monitoring and review (CFU) for behaviorist lesson plan Constructivist Lesson Plan Transpersonal Lesson Plan: The transpersonal lesson plan can follow either the behaviorist or constructivist design formats but  focuses on: learning about one's identity (who am I) learning about power (what it is, what forms it takes, how to acquire it or tap into it, that one is entitled to a proper measure of power and how to use it appropriately); experiencing connectedness (with other human beings, animals and the environment) e.g. meditation, concentration and contemplation values clarification, e.g. evaluating, validating, choosing and acting. communication skills, including listening, speaking, writing. giving directions, asking questions, talking about one's feelings, speaking one's truth, acknowledging another's truth group work, e.g. breaking down the isolation which some learners feel through cooperative learning activities, group projects, and group processes which give support, sharing. Role play including the enactment of rites of passage and personal rituals co-counselling or peer counseling e.g. specific slills on how to be emotional resources for each other, identifying peak experiences and/or persnal or spiritual emergencies and how to help another through them. assertiveness training including skills of impression management, giving and receiving feedback, handling conflict achievement motivation emphasizing goal- setting, moderate risk taking and achievement planning, The Teaching Act	Assignment 1 Review Frontpage/ Digital Portfolio Skills. Prepare a CD- RW for EME2040. Assignment 2 Prepare a study sheet/Class notes handout on Lesson Planning (1) with bullets, multiple colors and illustrating images, upload the study sheet to Webct and burn it onto your CD. Assignment 3 Prepare a 20 slide power point presentation on Lesson Planning Follow the link here  to see an example of what the finished product might look like.  Assignment 4 K-6 Lesson Plan (Behaviorist) on any subject.  Follow Hunter design format. Example (1)
Week Three and Four Reflection 2: What is the difference between the Behaviorist Lesson Plan format and the Constructivist Lesson Plan format? Behaviorist Lesson Plan Constructivist Lesson Plan (1) What do Constructivist plans look like? Writing Hypotheses Reflection 3: What is a Constructivist Lesson Plan What is Scaffolding? Review (1)	Assignment 5 Write a K-5 Constructivist Lesson Plan: See  Example Assignment 6 Using the Inquiry Lesson Plan Template, write a 6-12 constructivist Lesson Plan. Template and Example Assignment 7 Prepare a study sheet/ Class notes handout on Behaviorism/Objectivism/ Instructionism (direct teaching) with bullets, multiple colors and illustrating images, upload the study sheet to Webct and burn it onto your CD.
Week Five and Six Reflection 4: What is Inquiry-Based Learning?	Assignment 8:  Prepare a 20 slide power point presentation on: What is Constructivism   Assignment 9 Write your 2nd Behaviorist Lesson Plan (6-12) using the following template.
Week Seven and Eight Reflection 5: What is cooperative/ collaborative learning? Review Reflection 6: What is a telecollaborative lesson (SEE: http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues332.shtml) World Links ?Our Village?: Project-based Telecollaborative Learning by Maria Lurenda Suplido Westergaard Review (1)	Assignment 10 Write a K-6 Transpersonal lesson Plan on "Facing Fear." Use the Constructivist lesson plan format. Assignment 11 Write a telecollaborative lesson plan using the cooperative lesson plan model. Include Collaborative Rubric. Example Assignment 12 Prepare a student data base. Example
Week Nine and Ten Reflection 7: What is a digital story Review (1) (2)	Assignment 13 Prepare a commercial grade book based on the student database . Example
Week Eleven and Twelve Reflection 8: What is your educational philosophy? Download philosophy survey to Microsoft Word and fill it out. Read articles on Essentialism, Perennialism, Progressivism, Existentialism, Social Reconstructionism, Behaviorism and Constructivism Five Educational Philosophies (1) Philosophy of Education Applied Philosophy Social Reconstruction as a philosophy of Education	Assignment 14 Prepare a digital story (individual) Assignment 15 Write an internet Inquiry lesson plan based on the inquiry learning modelWrite an internet Inquiry lesson plan based on the inquiry learning model
Week Thirteen and Fourteen Reflection 9: What have you learned about the use of technology in the process of instructional delivery?	Assignment 16 Write a 6-12 Constructivist Lesson Plan Assignment 17 Write a 6-12 Transpersonal lesson plan using the Inquiry lesson plan design on one of the following: Why is the suicide rate among Japanese school children so high? What are the two (2) most significant adjustment issues of homosexual high school students. How does one overcome bigotry
Week Fifteen Reflection 10: What have you learned in this class? What is your most valuable experience?	Assignment 18 Prepare digital story: Illustrate one problem in schooling that you wish to fix. Assignment 19 Prepare digital portfolio
Week Sixteen	Submit Portfolio Congratulations on a job well done.