Educational Technology EDU203

Course description: Educational Technology is a basic course that includes study of

modern principles of education and their application at all levels. It considers the
environment in which teacher work and its impact on teaching. Issues such as school-
based management, alternative certifications, changes in the job market and in the
status of the profession, teacher empowerment, etc. are also examined. Historical,
political, economical, social, philosophical and curricular foundations are explored
from the perspective of their necessary correlates of education, affecting current
educational practices and trends.

Summary of discussed materials: The most important topics learned in this course are
about:

- Information and communication technology (ICT). We studied how we can

integrate technology in classroom.
- 21st century skills: Learning skills, literacy skills, and life skills.
- Changing into student-centered learning
- Learning theories: behaviorist, cognitivist, constructivist, and socio-
constructivist.
- Software that teachers can use in classes to help students to get more
knowledge about topics. (in math I learned about Phet and Geogebra )
- How to make a professional lesson plan using ASSURE model. We also learnt
about TPACK and SAMR.
- Digital age learning experiences and assessment: the use of Web 2.0 resources
to facilitate learning.
- How to create E-portfolio that we can use in our educational career.
- How to create a website on weebly (not only in education)
- The importance of Flipped classrooms nowadays.

This course helped me to understand more the electronic world of education and
involved me in the newest software that helped my students to understand more
geometry. Students find it difficult to imagine geometry, so Geogebra helped them to
see things the way I see it and facilitate my role in class. In addition, PhEt provides
fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. Plus,
Kahoot is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools
and other educational institutions. Its learning games, "Kahoots", are multiple-choice
quizzes that allow user generation and can be accessed via a web browser or the
Kahoot application.
Google Classroom:

Google Classroom is a free web service, developed by Google for schools, that aims
to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. The
primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files
between teachers and students. We'd been taught about G.C. and this experience was
very successful. We shared our info between us in class and at home. Best features of
google classroom:

 Exposure to an Online Learning Platform. Today, many colleges require

students to take at least one online class during the course of their degree
work. ...
 Easy Access to Materials. ...
 Differentiation. ...
 Less Paper. ...
 No Lost Work. ...
 Engagement.

Lesson plan is one of the most important topics we learned in this course, I've been
preparing lesson plans for two years, and after taking this course, there was a
significant transformation about preparing lesson plans.

It was a good experience. Dr. Yehia was very friendly with us. He made our lives
easy and introduced us to many tools that we can use in our professional careers as
facilitators. Student centered is the most preferable strategy nowadays because it will
enhance students into critical thinking and for long memory.