Weekly Syllabus
| Mondays… week of |
Topics & Assignments |
| Aug 29 | Focus on Fall Practicum Technologies- Conjecture Maps |
| Complete Conjecture Mapping Module and… Please mail your 5 personal goals for EPSY 5220 to myoung@uconn.edu by end of the week. |
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| Sep | |
| 5 | Emerging Technologies Cycle |
| Complete WebTech Cycle & upload Sample Webpage link to your e-portfolio in Taskstream. |
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| 12 | Online Teaching and Learning Professional Presence Challenge (2 weeks) |
| Begin PD Cycle Readings and Postings |
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| Sunday 18 | Time TBD Sunday 7PM??/Course Check-in (Husky Collaborate Ultra) |
| 19 | Online Teaching and Learning Professional Presence (cont.) |
| Complete ProfDev Cycle, revise Taskstream e-portfolio as desired with link to your online professional presence | |
| 26 | Assistive Tech Challenge Cycle (1 week) |
| Begin and Complete Assistive Tech Cycle Readings and Postings Artifact: 508 compliance check of sample class web page should be posted from last summer to TS |
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| Oct | |
| 3 | PBL and Games-based Learning Challenge Cycle (1week) |
| 10 | PedTech Challenge (1 week) |
| Complete PedTech Cycle Reading, Discussion and Challenge. | |
| Sun Oct 16 | Time TBD Cycles 7PM? Course check-in (HuskyCT Collaborate Ultra) |
| 17 | Data-Driven Decision Making (1 week) |
| Complete DDDM Cycle Readings & Discussion. | |
| 24 | Multimedia, Transmedia & New Literacies Challenge(2 week cycle) |
| Begin MM Cycle Readings and Posting. | |
| 31 | Multimedia Challenge Continued |
| Artifact:be sure your summer video is uploaded to your Taskstream e-portfolio for this course and submitted. | |
| Nov | |
| 7 | Ethics, Equity & Digital Citizenship Learning Cycle Challenge (2 week Jigsaw cycle) |
| Begin Jigsaw Readings and Posting. | |
| 14 | Ethics Module Continued |
| Jigsaw Writing Groups | |
| Sun 20 | 7:00 Pre-Exam Blackboard HuskyCT Collaborate Ultra Check-In |
| 20-26 | Thanksgiving Break! |
| 27 | Final Exam (available all day Sunday). Study Guide Available in HuskyCT |
| Dec | |
| 6 | Final day of classes at UConn |
Course Requirements/ Grading
| 25% | Six artifacts posted to Taskstream (each worth 4.17 points (approx)):
These assignments are done at your job or as part of the cycles of the course. By the end of the semester you should have these uploaded to Taskstream. For example, Upload an exemplary post you made to the Challenge Cycle discussion threads this semester. You can cut/paste the text from HuskyCT. Provide a reflection or explanation for why you think this was a worthy contribution to class discussion, and how threaded discussion “worked” for you to support your online learning. |
| 15% | Online Cycles Postings and discussion |
| 5% | Monthly Sunday Check-ins |
| 15% | Personal goals: – documented as personal portfolio and submitted on Taskstream e-portfolio. |
| 5% | Self-evaluation – of overall class achievement, effort, knowledge, & skills. (done as part of final exam) |
| 35% | Final Exam – in-class short essay questions on course lectures and activities. |
Course Objectives
Students should acquire the skills to:
- Model digital work and learning in the classroom.
- Identify the instructional affordances of a broad range of contemporary and emerging educational technologies.
- Demonstrate familiarity with research on the application of learning theories to the strategic integration of instructional technologies into classroom teaching (see TPACK).
And
- Be able to wisely apply technology to solve classroom and real-world educational problems.
These course objectives are targeted primarily at ISTE/CAEP standards for technology coaches. These objectives also comport with ISTE, CAEP standards for Educators. Standards for students using technology (ISTE student standards) developed by ISTE in collaboration with Apple, NASA and others.