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. Education Old Description New Description Rationale A course that considers the effects of technology on education.
Participants learn how to integrate uses of technology to meet a variety of learning styles.
Technology as a change agent in schools is explored. The integration into the curriculum of computers, telecommunication technologies, CD-ROMs, and software is explored. Participants use word processing, databases, spreadsheets, and classroom desktop publishing. Course includes field based work. Field based work refers to course assignments which involve school age children.