Course includes field based work. Field based work refers to course assignments which involve school age children. Integrates various technologies into classroom instruction and curriculum development. Technology as a tool for change in schools is explored. Participants use word processing, databases, spreadsheets, and classroom desktop publishing.
Participants develop projects that require direct involvement with students in their own classrooms.
To clarify the placement of this course at the beginning of the sequence of concentration courses and to emphasize more clearly and more strongly the need to use approaches consistent with project based learning. Once these two courses have been completed, the student must be able to demonstrate proficiency in applying word processing, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, e-mail, listserv, Web browsing and searching, and Web publishing to project based instructional planning. Instructors in subsequent courses will be able to assume that students can draw upon the skills for advanced study. As A Research Tool Old Description New Description Rationale Provides teachers and administrators with strategies for developing and implementing computer-assisted research. Participants use the computer to facilitate research and integrate new knowledge that supports the writing process in their classrooms and schools.