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| Models of Teaching, Learning, and Technology |
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Course Description
Models refer not only to Mathematical models and simulations but also to matrices of processes which are meant to represent the way students learn; whether the models are primarily behavioral, social, or developmental. This module offers you the opportunity to examine models for the three primary tasks in the modern-day classroom:
- Teaching
- Learning
- Technology
Models can be a powerful tool for the classroom teacher to use, or they can serve as an enormous impediment. It will be obvious in examining the models of teaching, learning, and technology that this variety of purposes, usages, content, and outcomes represent complex and challenging integration requirements; intellectually, psychologically, and pedagogically. How the modern-day classroom teacher uses models in their pedagogy can serve as stimulus to learning or act as a suppressant.
This one credit module will guide you through a discussion of each of these focus areas examining the specific as well as the overall importance each plays in the classroom and the educational environment for teachers, and students. Facilitating this examination will be access to multi-media resources which will aid you in your reflection and your learning experience. You will have the opportunity to integrate this information into your own knowledge base, and make application to your practicum. A Capstone project utilizing what you have learned, as well as usage of mastery application skills for your practicum serve as the culmination of this learning experience.
Course Content
- Articulating and applying a philosophy of education which is appropriate to the students in the middle level education and which ensures that students learn to think critically and integrate subject matter across the disciplines.
- Articulating and applying a philosophy of education which is appropriate to the students in high school and ensures that students learn to think critically and integrate subject matter across disciplines.
Capstone Activity
Use the model or models you selected in the module tasks as a guide or guides. Imagine that you are teaching in your own classroom, and you have been asked by your school's principal to recommend a plan for upgrading the technology in your program while at the same time protecting what you believe about teaching and learning. What is the role you see that technology can or should play in Education and how does this fit into your plan?
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Professional Technical Education