For each course, the table includes the former description, the newly approved description, and the rationale for the change. Below each course is a list of bulleted items to be included in the course content. New Description Rationale Designed for the Internet user. This course explores the educational resources and K-12 curriculum and instruction materials available on the Internet. Curriculum applications using the Internet as a resource are produced.
Course includes field based work.
Field based work refers to course assignments which involve school age children. Explores the educational resources and K-12 curriculum and instruction materials available on the Internet. Participants develop projects that require direct involvement with students in their own classrooms. They also produce and host an interactive Web site for their own classrooms. To clarify the placement of this course at the beginning of the sequence of concentration courses, to emphasize more clearly and more strongly the need to learn Internet skills and Web publishing skills for subsequent courses in the C.I.T. program.