introduction to the subject

Introduction to the subject.

Lecturer

John Warner:
Telephone: 8344-8524
Room: S801, Doug McDonell Building
Email: warnerj@unimelb.edu.au

Associates and Tutors

Bronwyn Disseldorp

John Murnane

Martin Boyle

Recommended Texts

There is no compulsory text book for the subject.

The Kids Can Do CD ROM: This CD is choc full of resources for primary teachers in training and would make a fine purchase for a primary teacher. It is the "text" for the corresponding subject to this one in the B.Ed(Primary) course. The details are: D P Chambers & M Dobbins, Computers & the K-6 Classroom: Kids Can Do. CD-ROM, Department of Science & Mathematics Education, University of Melbourne, 1998.

Computer Education for Teachers Second Edition,Vicki Sharp, Brown and Benchmark Publishers. This was published in a third edition in March 2001. This is a good general text with a classroom emphasis and would be an useful addition to your professional library whether primary or secondary.

Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, Roblyer M D, Edwards J, Merrill, 1997. This book is probably the best that I have seen to describe the possibilities of IT in secondary classrooms - a good text for a secondary teacher's bookshelf. The "companion web site" is: http://www.prenhall.com/roblyer.

Course contact hours

There are nine lectures and workshops in the subject in this semester. In each week there is also a one-hour workshop that will be used to introduce a piece of software or a concept. Please note that the workshop topic is not necessarily related to the lecture topic for that week.

One one-hour lecture per week.
The lecture time is used to introduce an issue in IT education.

One one-hour workshop per week.
Practical work should be started in the workshop and then finished in your own time: typically, the task set for a workshop will be handed to the tutor in the following week's workshop for marking.
The laboratories are booked for a two-hour block for each workshop.

Goals of the course

To make you familiar with a range of software tools in common use in classrooms.
To make you aware of how you can use computers and software in your classrooms.
To alert you to the body of literature in the area of computers in classrooms..

Course Outline

Each of the lectures will address a major topic in the area of Information Technology in the Classroom. The proposed sequence is:

Lecture One
Introduction to subject
Introduction to computer ethics
Lecture Two
Computers as personal productivity tools.
Classroom uses.

Lecture Three
Uses of the Internet: in the classroom and as a tool for personal research.

Lecture Four
Approaches of Educational Software
Demonstration of HyperStudio

Lecture Five
Information Literacy

Lecture Six
The place of Multimedia in the Classroom
HyperStudio navigation

Lecture Seven
Evaluation of Educational Software

Lecture Eight
Special Needs students and Information Technology

Lecture Nine
The Technology CSF and the notion of Integrated Curriculum

Please note that the sequence may change according to the location of school experience rounds.

Assessment

"Assignments to a total of 2000 words or equivalent."
Evaluation educational software or educational resource such as a web site(40%)
Multimedia project (40%)
Regular tasks in workshops (20%). Workshop tasks will be graded.

The subject has an 80% attendance requirement.
Rolls will be taken in workshops.
Attendance less than 80% will mean that you are not eligible for assessment in the subject.

Grading

The subject will be graded according to the Education faculty policy.
The grades are H1, H2A, H2B, H3, P, N.
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Last modified: February 18, 2002
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