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Course Description This course follows on from concepts and strategies learned in our introductory courses, giving you a chance to explore the practical challenges of Teaching for Understanding with technology. Using the unit you have previously planned, you will build assessment tools, refine technology plans, and evaluate the classroom results of your unit. Note: "Teaching for Understanding with New Technologies" is a prerequisite for this course. The instructor may admit others with equivalent preparation.
Overarching Course Goals / Throughlines
The core questions we will investigate during this course are: - How can educators plan and implement curriculum that leverages new technologies to teach for understanding?
- How can educators use new technologies to support a culture of continuous learning in a professional community in order to reflect upon and advance their own practice?
Course Sessions
Orientation Session
- Understand how instructors, coaches, and fellow learners will support your learning.
- Understand the overarching goals for this course, participant responsibilities, and the course online environment.
- Clarify your own learning goals for this course, and become acquainted with your instructors, coach, and fellow learners.
SESSION 1: Designing Curriculum with New Technology
- Understand what you will do in the course, as well as the details of the culminating performance.
- Understand how the TfU framework can be used to support curriculum design and the integration of technology.
- Understand how using an assessment guide with explicit criteria can identify strengths and weaknesses in curriculum design, and spur on ideas for revision.
- Understand how the CCDT can be used to check alignment and coherence of the TfU framework elements.
- Understand how to participate in a professional learning community.
SESSION 2: Planning and Preparing the Technology Infrastructure
- Understand the various infrastructure challenges that often present themselves when using technology in curriculum, including those relevant to your teaching context.
- Understand how to plan for technology challenges.
- Learn who your feedback partner will be for the course, and how you will support one another.
- Understand how to apply a feedback protocol in order to give substantive, constructive feedback to peers.
- Understand how to participate in a professional learning community.
SESSION 3: Implementing Ongoing Assessment with New Technology
- Understand how technologies can be used to enable and enhance ongoing assessment.
- Understand how to implement a process of ongoing assessment into your design.
- Understand how to give and receive professional feedback to advance your own and others' understanding OA (with or without using technology).
SESSION 4: Teaching Your Unit and Reflecting on Your Implementation
- Understand how to apply the TfU framework in practice to ensure learning is focused on the development of student understanding.
- Understand that learning to teach for understanding with new technologies is a gradual process.
- Understand how to give and receive professional feedback to advance your own and others' understanding of implementing TfU in practice.
SESSION 5: Examining Student Work
- Understand how to make judgments about students' understanding and work using criteria based on the TfU framework.
- Understand how technology can help in gathering and organizing student work, as well as in making judgments, providing feedback and enabling the development of further understanding.
- Understand how to give and receive professional feedback to advance your own and others' understanding of implementing TfU in practice.
SESSION 6: Publishing While Looking Forward and Looking Back
- Understand how the elements of the TfU framework and the practical strategies for integrating technology can support further refinement of your design.
- Understand how to use criteria and feedback to reflect upon your own and others' work.
- Understand the big take-aways of this course and how you will use them to support continuous professional growth.
Professional Development Credit For those interested in earning professional development points/units/credits, a certificate for up to 42 hours will be issued upon completion of the course, if all the assignments have been completed -- approximately 7 hours per session.
Three additional hours may be earned by completing one or more of the following assessments, for a total of 45 participation hours: - midterm course evaluation (1 hour)
- final course evaluation (2 hours)
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