Welcome to EDCI 271!

This blog contains all the information you need to successfully complete EDCI 271: Classroom Applications of Educational Technology. This will be a hybrid course which means part of the time we will meet face to face, and the rest of the time we will meet in hyperspace! This will help you understand how technology can be used to teach and learn. You will be able to discuss more knowledgably about the pros and cons of distance education after having this experience.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Observation Reaction- Due April 10th!

Please share what you learned from doing the observation assignment. Please connect to what we have been learning in class and how this will make you a better teacher of technology.

Technology and At-Risk Students- DUE April 3rd!

Please add three things that you learned after reading the article found in the Links section titled, "Technology and At-Risk Children" article.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Add a link for your Social / Ethical Issue HERE!

Please add your best link for the presentation you made in 271 on a social or ethical issue involving technology in the classroom.
Thanks!

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Best Web Site

Share your favorite website out of the ones that you examined for the Web Evaluation Assignment. Make sure to post the name of the entire URL to make it easier for us to access.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Technology Issues in Teaching Response- Due Feb 21

Please choose two topics listed in the Tech Issues Web site listed under Class 6 Web Links. Explore the topics by reading the websites associated with them. Post at least three things that you learned from reviewing the information on those two topics. That is, 3 things for each of the 2 topics. Look forward to reading your responses! Happy Learning!

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Frontline Video: Growing Up Online- due Feb 7th

I stumbled across this great TV show highlighting how kids are growing up ONLINE. I thought part of the program was effective at highlighting some of the challenges teachers have with how different kids are in this new digital age. Please click on the link and watch the ONE section, "A Revolution in Classrooms and Social Life" and share with the class your thoughts. Please focus your answers on the following prompts: "How are YOU as a teacher going to deal with the fact that kids are different these days and even at a very young age are used to being online? Do you think teachers have a responsibility to add technologies to support learning in the classroom? Do teachers have an obligation to help students understand appropriate uses of the Internet?"

Reaction to Cuban's Article- Due 1/31

After reading the article by Larry Cuban, what is your reaction? How can you become a leader using technology and in the best ways to support student learning amid these obstacles?
PLEASE RESPOND BY: January 31 (Thursday).

Sunday, January 20, 2008

More thoughts about Cases

There wasn't a ton of time on Thursday to complete our discussions of the two cases. Did anyone have anything they would like added to that discussion about the two VERY different ways that teachers teach with the internet?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

1st POST

This is a test to see if you can post a comment to this message. My question is....what ways have YOU use the web in the last week? For what purposes?