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Technology and 21st Century Literacy Skills†
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Graduate Credit: 3 semester hours
Formats: Online
Level: Grades K–12
Tuition: $495/ group rate $465
Registration Deadline: March 16, 2012
Complete by: June 30, 2012
Course #: EDUC-6944T
| Grades: |
10 weeks after receipt of coursework |
Do your students have the “new literacy” skills they need for today’s information-rich world? This course gives you the opportunity to explore how multimedia and the Internet can support inquiry-based learning, as well as foster collaborative problem solving, communication, and critical thinking in your students. Acquire the strategies to strengthen your students’ learning through technology, while enhancing your own technical knowledge.
Teaching Tangibles
- Evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses in 21st century literacy skills.
- Discover how to embed these “new literacy” skills into your content-area lessons.
- Align "new literacy" skills with your content-area standards.
- Create an inquiry-based unit plan for evaluating and synthesizing Internet resources.
- Conduct your own inquiry-based project to explore “new literacy” skills.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of your school or district’s Internet policies.
†Credits for up to four of these courses may be applied toward a Walden University M.S. in Education program. Please call 1-866-492-5336 and speak to an Enrollment Advisor for more details.
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Download a course fact sheet to share with your supervisor, principal, and other teaching colleagues who may be interested in learning more about Canter graduate courses. The overview includes a description of the course as well as information on:
- Course topics and outcomes
- Course assessment criteria
- System requirements (online format)
- Featured education experts
- Accredited partner universities
Sara Armstrong, Ph.D.
Dr. Sara Armstrong is an associate of the Thornburg Center for Professional Development and serves on the board of directors of the Global SchoolNet Foundation, the Center for Accessible Technology, and the River School Advisory Councils. She consults on professional development and project-based learning in schools around the United States, as well as with the MY HERO Project, the Buck Institute for Education, CUE (Computer-Using Educators, Inc.), Lake Washington School District, and Technology & Learning. Dr. Armstrong is writing a book on project-based learning in the elementary classroom for the Buck Institute.
Chris Dede, Ph.D.
Dr. Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. Dr. Dede's fundamental interest is the expanded human capabilities for knowledge creation, sharing, and mastery that emerging technologies enable. His research spans emerging technologies for learning, infusing technology into large-scale educational improvement initiatives, policy formulation and analysis, and leadership in educational innovation. He also is active in policy initiatives, including creating a widely used State Policy Framework for Assessing Educational Technology Implementation and studying the potential of developing a scalability index for educational innovations.
David Thornburg, Ph.D.
Dr. Thornburg is an award-winning author, researcher, and speaker who has been called “the premier futurist in education.” He is the director of the Thornburg Center for Professional Development and a senior fellow of the Congressional Institute for the Future. Through his live presentations, articles, and PBS Internet broadcasts, he reaches hundreds of thousands of educators worldwide every year. Dr. Thornburg is the author of numerous articles and books, including Brainstorms and Lightning Bolts, Campfires in Cyberspace, and Putting the Web to Work.
The following course materials are included in the cost of tuition and will be delivered directly to you:
- Textbook: Reading the Web: Strategies for Internet Inquiry by Maya B. Eagleton and Elizabeth Dobler
- Textbook: Web Literacy for Educators
by Alan C. November - DVD: Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom
(Provided as backup to streaming video online.)
Articles and other reading materials are provided in your
online classroom.
Prerequisite
This is a graduate-level course; therefore, you must have a bachelor's degree or above to enroll and receive credit.
Earning Graduate Credit
Total coursework for this course is equivalent to a 45 contact-hour course. Graduate credit will be issued when you successfully complete the following course requirements:
- Collaborate with study partner(s) (Print & DVD format only).
- Collaborate with colleagues through discussion boards (Online format only).
- View video segments.
- Complete required text/journal readings, assignments, and the final paper.
Course Completion Deadline
Print & DVD format: coursework must be postmarked on or before June 30, 2012
Online format: coursework must be submitted online on or before June 30, 2012012
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