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Richard Stockton College Master of Arts in Instructional Technology INTC 5330 Integrating Technology in the Classroom Fall 2012 Classroom: To Be Determined Tuesdays 4:00 8:00 PM/Hybrid Instructor: Douglas M. Harvey, D.Ed. Meeting hours: Tuesday by appt. or phone Phone: 609-652-4770 Google Voice Phone: 609-365-1701 Email:harveyd@stockton.edu Course Description According to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21): Learning and innovation skills increasingly are being recognized as the skills that separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not. A focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future. Groups such as P21 and the International Society for Technology in education (ISTE), as well as the major stakeholders in the education system (administrators, teachers unions, state departments of education) all agree that technology integration is a key tool to meeting the goals we have for 21st century students. This course is designed to acquaint the practicing K-12 teacher with the integration of digital technologies in modern classrooms. A fundamental element in todays classrooms, in order to use technologies to enhance the learning experience, one must not only be capable of using the devices, but also understand their value and true power as a learning tool for students. This course seeks to provide a basis for teachers that wish to integrate technology into the classroom, by allowing practice in technological skills and covering criteria for evaluating how well they have integrated the tools. The course will present a perspective on technologies that emphasizes helping students reach higher-order outcomes such as problem solving and synthesis of information. The class will take a hands-on approach, in which you will be introduced to several digital tools, and be asked to integrate them into lessons for your own students.

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Course Objectives After completing this course, you will be better able to meet the ISTE NETS*T standards for teachers: 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETSS as necessary for the 21st Century. 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Copyright 2008, ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) In addition to the NETS*T, there are two other standard sets that are important to technology integration. One set is the NETS*S which are written for students and encompasses the technology enhanced skills and knowledge deemed vital to be mastered by K-12 students:
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Creativity and Innovation Communication and Collaboration Research and Information Fluency Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Digital Citizenship Technology Operations and Concepts http://www.iste.org/Libraries/PDFs/NETS-S_Standards.sflb.ashx

The NETS*S have been incoprporated in the New Jersey state curriculum, as part of Standard 8.1which deals with technology integration. There are a number of profiles provided by ISTE at http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students/nets-for-students-2007-

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profiles.aspx that can help you determine by grade level the kinds of lessons and assessments to develop in this course. The other standard set is from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, which has identified skills and knowledge important to the present and future global society. Through a framework for 21st Century Skills, the P21 organization successfully advocates for revising the curriculum for K-12 education, including New Jersey which has adopted the framework within its state curriculum. You can read an overview of the skills at http://p21.org/overview and for this course we will concentrate on: Learning and Innovation Skills Creativity and Innovation Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Communication and Collaboration Information, Media and Technology Skills Information Literacy Media Literacy ICT Literacy For the course assignments and the projects you will develop, it is expected you will attempt to meet aspects of the three standards sets (NETS*T, NETS*S and P21) as appropriate. Suggested Text/ Materials Handouts and Web-based materials as assigned. Regular check of the class instructors blog at http://harveyd.edublogs.org Access to the class Blackboard online course site. The appropriate book for the Online Book Club assignment. Class Format Classes consist of instructors presentation, discussion, and hands-on laboratory experience, plus self-directed online components. This course will also include streaming and archiving of course audio and presentation content via WIMBA, the web conferencing tool in the colleges Blackboard system for online coursework. Active participation in the class is the most important factor for your success. Access to technology resources outside of class will be beneficial for practice and experience with the various technologies. As you can tell from the schedule, the final 5 weeks of class are going to take place online as opposed to a face-to-face classroom. Participation in the first 6 weeks of the course is possible in the following ways, in order of preference:

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Attend class face-to-face this is how the course is designed to be delivered, and it makes it easier to help you with the computer-based tools you will be learning and using. If at all possible, this would be the best way to attend the first 6 class sessions. Even if you anticipate arriving later than the 4:00 start time, if you can make it to class by 4:45 I can arrange to catch you up on any content you may have missed. 2) If you are simply unable to make it to the class site, but are able to connect to the Blackboard site and our Wimba conferencing room for the course via a computer with speakers and preferably a microphone during the first hour of class, I will broadcast the voice and my screen from each of the face-to-face class sessions so you can follow along and ask questions. Do understand that you will be on your own to some degree in accessing and learning the tools I can try to help but it may be difficult in that we are not in the same place. 3) If you are unable to make class and also can not be online during the first hour, I will archive our Wimba session and you may watch it later. This is the least interactive of the delivery methods, and as such is the least preferred. You can send me follow up questions via email or arrange a time to discuss the content if you need help.
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If you need accommodations for any sort of documented physical or learning disability, please speak to the instructor as soon as possible, preferably by the second night of class, so that arrangements may be made to afford you the best possible arrangement to succeed in the class.

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Grading Integration Projects (70%) There will be seven (7) integration projects due. These projects will be required to be turned in digitally via your blog or wiki portfolio, and are due on the due date listed in the syllabus. Resubmissions are allowed in order to correct and earn more points for a project after the original submission, and may be made up until the final class meeting. These mini-projects are meant to show your grasp of the concepts covered in class, and assess your application of those concepts to educational settings. In each case the projects should be relevant to your classroom or workplace context. For each project, you will provide an accompanying plan, with learning objectives, and a rubric for assessment.

Project 1 (10%): Communication You will maintain a blog or wiki related to technology integration for your teaching subject and grade level, or for your professional role, throughout the course. It is expected that you will have the following content in your blog or wiki: An introductory post with a multimedia welcome that communicates who you are, what you do, and the purpose of the blog/wiki Weekly posts relevant to your ideas for technology integration, including links to resources, articles, or events that are of interest to your blog/wiki audience Leading the weekly discussions for the online book club assignment Reviews of videos from Edutopia.org or Classroom 2.0 webinars The other projects done for the class, organized to show how each project meets the NETS and P21 standards All these items should be included and clearly organized and delineated in the navigation scheme.

Project 2 (10%): Data take the information collected and build some sort of technology-enabled framework (a spreadsheet, database, presentation, wiki or concept map). You should also use certain Google Tools (such as a custom search engine, Google Docs form, Google Sites, or Google maps) to support students with their research. Project 3 (10%): Visual use a visual technology to produce a set of visual materials for use in a lesson. Examples include creating a concept map, utilizing Flickr for image tagging, make a Glogster page or taking virtual field trips using Google Earth. It is expected that you will create a lesson that incorporates those tools in such a way that your students will utilize them to gain or communicate knowledge about a topic.

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Project 4 (10%): Mobile and handheld devices Technologies such ipads, iPods and cell phones have become a growing presence in school environments. Other handheld devices such as a Student Response System (clickers) or graphing calculators should be part of an activity you develop for learners. Project 5 (10%): Interactive Whiteboard/Presentation You will be asked to create a short learning activity that utilizes the interactive whiteboard or similar technology, in conjunction with an interactive presentation tool such as PowerPoint or Prezi. Project 6 (10%): Multimedia/Podcast Create a video, a digital story, or a podcast that conveys knowledge of a specific topic related to your classroom. Again this should be created from the student perspective. Project 7 (10%): Global Connection Create a lesson that utilizes communication tools (Skype, video conferencing, interactive chats) to bring the world to your students by connecting to experts or peers elsewhere in the world. Sites such as the following can help you with ideas and making connection: http://epals.com, http://echucaelearning.wikispaces.com/Skype, http://cybraryman.com/collaboration.html

Assessment of these projects will be based on how well the project incorporates and meets the NETS*T, NETS*S and P21 standards. Video Reflections (5%): To begin the course, you are to visit the following sites and then do five 100-150 word reflections on your blog of your choice of videos and webinars you find there. I suggest you type up your reflections using a word processing program, and then transfer them to your blog or wiki tools. You should embed the videos with each post if possible, and for the brave could also do your reflections in video form as well. The sites are:
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Classroom 2.0 Live http://live.classroom20.com Classroom 2.0 is a social network of teachers interested in technology integration. They host a weekly series of webinars that are free to join, and keep an archive of past webinars. Each webinar is about 1 hour long. I am asking you to view/attend one (1) webinar of your choice, either by attending a live session (click on the Calendar tab on the web page) or by viewing an archived show (click the Archive and Resources tab). For the webinars you will need to make sure your computer will run the eLuminate plug-in directions are on the web page. (Alternatively, you can go to iTunesU and search for Classroom 2.0 and download webinars via iTunes).

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Edutopia Videos - http://www.edutopia.org/video

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Edutopia is a website sponsored by the George Lucas Foundation. It has many great resources for teachers, including a wealth of short (about 5 minutes) videos on a variety of topics. When you visit the web page for Videos, you will see that you can search by topic and grade level. You should select as your topic Technology Integration and for grade level the one that fits you. You should choose four (4) videos that seem interesting to you, watch them and record your reflections for posting on your blog. Online Book Club (5%): Each of you, in one of four groups, will run an online book club along with undergraduate pre-service teacher education students, using a blog or wiki site of your own creation. Your role is to coordinate the club discussions, including providing a weekly starter prompt, moderating comments, and keeping the discussion moving through participation. Each book costs about $20, and several are available in digital editions for Kindle or iPad. The books will be assigned to each group from the following: The Connected Educator by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall: This book examines the nature of professional development for K-12 educators in the digital-age, and provides many practical ideas for how you may take advantage of this new model as you grow as an educator. Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning by Marc Prensky: The author that coined the term digital natives explores what it means to teach students who have never known a world without the constancy of digital technology. Dont Bother Me Mom-Im Learning! by Marc Prensky: Prenskys other interest has been with serious gaming and the potential held by video gaming to not hurt but help students learn skills and habits that are needed for the 21st century. Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn by Larry Rosen: Similar to the Prensky book, Rosen examines the impact of digital tools on student learning and educational system. Personal Learning Network (5%): One of the most powerful things about Web 2.0 is its emphasis on social connections. As a teacher, creating an interconnection of various social connections (a Personal Learning Network, or PLN for short) can be a wonderful source for ideas, professional development, and support. Your PLN works in conjunction with your more traditional professional connections, such as in-building colleagues and district provided training, but allows you to access a much wider array of resources than you could without using the Web.

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You will be asked as part of this class to draw up a plan of how you would go about creating your PLN to help you stay current with technology integration, and I hope you will follow through on that plan. The plan should include answering the following questions:
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Which web based community site will you join and why? General teacher communities include Classroom 2.0 or the Educators PLN; some communities are specific to a discipline, (such as the English Companion Ning or Art Education 2.0). These communities are a wealth of resources and tend to be more formal in their organization. Which tool(s) will you use for a smaller group of colleagues that you can turn to, such as Twitter or Facebook. These tools are more for fast exchanges or answering specific questions that require short answers. Which professional organizations will you join, and which conferences will you target for annual attendance? ISTE or AECT (association for Educational Communications and Technology) are international groups; NJAET or NJECC are statewide organizations; and conferences range from large international conventions (NECC, ISTEs annual conference, is in Philadelphia this coming June!) to smaller state affairs (such as My Classroom to Yours here at Stockton each spring). Often you will find other educators with a shared interest via this route. Which websites, blogs, wikis, and podcasts will you follow regularly? This may include the use of an RSS reader that tells you when new content is added to a blog or a new podcast is made available. Will you continue your blog/wiki or start a new one as part of your PLN? You could also start a podcast, or create a YouTube channel, or utilize any other sharing site related to your professional interests. Remember that you do not just take from your PLN you need to share too. What does your PLN look like? You should also include a graphic representation of your PLN - see examples at: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams#stewart.

Final Portfolio Online Presentation (15%): Using a tool of your choosing, you are to create a self-running narrated tour of your entire portfolio and embed it into your blog or wiki. For example, you might use a screen capture program like Jing, a site like http://screencastomatic.com or make a self-running PowerPoint with narration. The main thing is to graphically show how your portfolio pieces meet the NETS*T, NETS*S, and P21 standards. Be creative! We will meet in an online format for the final date of class to share our tours. Grading Chart Please note that at anytime a student may request a status check of her/his grade. It is also important to remember that any graded assignment may be resubmitted with appropriate changes in order to achieve a higher grade. The final date for resubmissions is the end of

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the final class session. A+ 97-100 A 93-96 A90-92 B+ 87-89 B 83-86 B80-82 C+ 77-79 C 73-76 C70-72 F 0-69

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Schedule Week Class Date Topics 1 10/2 Introduction Blogs and Wikis 2 10/9 Working with Data Working with Visuals 3 10/16 Interactive Whiteboards and Presentation Tools 4 10/23 Tablets, Handhelds and (Note: Mobile Devices Class may be held at Stockton) 5 6 7 10/30 11/6 Videos and Podcasting
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Online Work Prepare Online Book Club Book Club Moderation Book Club Moderation Book Club Moderation

Assignment Due Blog/Wiki Begun

Data Project Visual Project Interactive Whiteboard Lesson

11/13 Global Connections Online 8 11/20 Personal Learning NetOnline works 9 11/27 Work on Digital Portfolios Online 12/4 Work on Digital Portfolios Online 12/11 Virtual Presentations of Online Portfolios via WIMBA

Book Club Moderation Book Club Summary Begin Video Reflections WIMBA Individual Checks

Handheld/Mobile Project

Multimedia/Podcast Project Global Connections Lesson

WIMBA Indi- PLN vidual Checks WIMBA Indi- Video Reflections vidual Checks Completed 7/18 Online Digital Portfolio Due

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