Go to Week:
| One Aug 31/Sep 2 | Two Sep 7/9 | Three Sep 14/16 | Four Sep 21/23 | Five Sep 28/30 |
| Six Oct 5/7 | Seven Oct 12/14 | Eight Oct 19/21 | Nine Oct 26/28 | Ten Nov 2/4 |
| Eleven Nov 9/11 | Twelve Nov 16/18 | Thirteen Nov 30/Dec 2 | Fourteen Dec 7/9 | Fifteen Finals |
Week One August 31 and September 2: Introductions
Tuesday | Introductions
Introductions:
- You & me
- Course Introduction
Workshop
- WordPress I
- New to WordPress? Here’s support for the new WordPress Block Editor
- Get Your Blog Going: The Movie
Thursday | Introductions
Noteworthy:
- Assignment Due Friday 3 September | Blog Post Introductions
- Tuesday 7 September is Rosh Hashanah, class is cancelled
- Thursday 9 September is the Mass of the Holy Spirit, class begins at 11:00 and ends at 11:50
- Thursday 16 September is Yom Kippur, class is cancelled
Workshops
Overview:
- Reading for 9 September| The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning
- Video game play
- Video Gaming Exploration
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Week Two September 7 & 9 | Agenda
Tuesday, September 7 is Rosh Hashanah, class is cancelled
Thursday
Noteworthy |
- Today is the Mass of the Holy Spirit, class begins at 11:00 and ends at 11:50
- Thursday 16 September is Yom Kippur, class is cancelled
- Reading* for next Tuesday, 14 September | The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning, (cont.)
Reading | The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning
More WordPress |
- Discussion Settings
- Blogs I Follow
Introductions | Blog Post Introductions
Discussions |
- Games we’ve been playing
- The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning
- Commonsense Media Best Games for Learning database
Exploration | Play Mission US 1907: The Immigrant Experience (Be sure to make an account before playing).
Workshop | Video game play
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Week Three September 14 & 16 |Agenda
Tuesday
Reading | The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning
Noteworthy |
- Sign up | Learning Circles for Video Games Exploration
- Thursday 16 September is Yom Kippur, class is cancelled
- Assignments Due 23 September | BlogPost Video Gaming Post One
Some Introductions
- What must be in place for you to feel comfortable taking intellectual and creative risks in a course such as this one?
- Please share with the class an essay that is essential to your interests/concerns as a preservice teacher.
- A few questions and a few answers
Discussions |
- Games we’ve been playing
- The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning
- Commonsense Media Best Games for Learning database
- Video games and technology integration, ideas from iCivics
- Video Gaming Exploration | What are we supposed to write about?
Introduction to the Gee reading | a few concepts
Workshop | Selecting a video game
- Video Gaming Exploration
- Check out Common Sense Education [Graphite] which allows you to filter information about games by traditional subject areas and by grade level. Commonsense Media Best Games for Learning database
Thursday September 16 is Yom Kippur — Class is cancelled.
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Week Four September 21 & 23 |Agenda
Tuesday
Reading: Gee, J.P. (2007) Good video games, the human mind, and good learning. pp. 22-44.
Noteworthy |
Some Introductions |
- Please share with the class an essay that is essential to your interests/concerns as a preservice teacher.
- A few questions and a few answers
Discussion |
- A few thoughts about Drill & Practice
- Small groups learning experience (Think – Pair – Share) | Video Games & Learning Principles
*Please consult the Readings menu for a current list. pw = edtech386
Thursday
Reading: Gee, J.P. (2007) Good video games, the human mind, and good learning. pp. 22-44.
Noteworthy |
- Assignment Due: BlogPost Video Gaming Post One
- Assignment Due Friday 1 October | Video Game Exploration
- For next Tuesday, 28 September |
- Squire, K. (2006). From content to context: Video games as designed experience. Educational researcher, 35(8), 19–29.
- Play | The McDonald’s Videogame
Discussion | Learning Circles & Video Games & Learning Principles
Viewing | James Paul Gee on Learning with Video Games
Workshop | Posting Images
- Mac
- command+ shift+3 = screen capture,
- command+ shift+4 = captures selected quadrilateral.
- Windows | Print Screen + Snipping tool
Workshop |
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Week Five September 28 & 30 | Agenda
Tuesday
Reading*| Squire, K. (2006). From content to context: Video games as designed experience. Educational researcher, 35(8), 19–29.
Noteworthy |
- Assignment Due Friday 1 October | Video Game Exploration (Short essays and replies ~ 150 words/post or ~1500 words for the entire exploration).
Workshop | The McDonald’s Videogame
Discussion | Learning Circles & Video Games & Learning Principles
Viewing | James Paul Gee on Learning with Video Games
*Please consult the Readings menu for a current list. pw = edtech386
Thursday
Noteworthy |
- Assignment Due Friday 1 October | Video Game Exploration (Short essays and replies ~ 150 words/post or ~1500 words for the entire exploration).
Introduction | Digital Storytelling Exploration
Viewing | Story Center — What’s Your Story?
Open Workshop | Video Game Exploration
Friday 1 October
Assignment Due: Video Game Exploration
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Week Six October 5 & 7 | Agenda
Tuesday
Reading: Dalton, B. (2013). Multimodal Composition and the Common Core State Standards.
Noteworthy |
- Reading for Thursday: Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 5: Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (4th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 53-69.
- Digital Storytelling Exploration
Viewing | Seething – by Milmon Harrison
Discussion | Digital Storytelling & Multimodal Composition
- Common Core Visual Literacy ELA K-12 Standards
- Imagining the Digital Storytelling Workshop across disciplines and grades
Thursday
Reading | Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 5: Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (4th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 53-69.
Reading selections for next week: Digital Storytelling, Selected Readings in the Content Areas
Viewing |
- Musical Fractions Digital Story | Sofia Ayres-Aronson
- An Agricultural Place – a digital story by David Vigil
Mini-Lecture | Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling
Small group activity | Digital Storytelling, Seven Steps
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Week Seven October 12 & 14 |Agenda
Tuesday
Reading: Digital Storytelling, Selected Readings in the Content Areas
Noteworthy |
Small group activity |
Viewing | An Agricultural Place – a digital story by David Vigil
Thursday
Viewing |
Small group activity (continued) –> BlogPost | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
Assignment Due in class: BlogPost | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
Discussion | Photography Composition Basics
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Week Eight October 19 & 21 | Agenda
Tuesday
Reading | Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 7: Approaches to the Scripting Process & Chapter 8: Storyboarding
Noteworthy | ED386/ED586 F20 Grade Sheets
Discussions | Digital Storytelling | Scripting & Storyboarding
Viewing |
- Hannah Ingram’s Digital Story | Peruvian Experience
- Digital Story by Kala Marshall & Michelle Ritchey
Workshop | WeVideo I
Workshop II | Digital Storytelling with your cell phone
Thursday
Noteworthy | Field Observations
Discussions | Digital Storytelling | Scripting & Storyboarding
Workshop | WeVideo II (topics)
- Basic editing in Timeline Mode
- Multiple tracks -> video
- Video Levels (Dissolve)
- Animation
- Titles
- Audio
- Audio Levels
- Multiple tracks -> audio
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Week Nine October 26 & 28 | Agenda
Tuesday
Readings: Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 4: Assessing Digital Stories. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin. pp. 83-91.
Workshop I | A few Ideas about Image/text relations
Discussion | Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 4: Assessing Digital Stories.
- Why assess?
- Digital Stories
- In the era of accountability & ubiquitous technology
- What to assess — digital story assessment traits
- How to assess — do I need to make a rubric? Can I establish criteria and qualitatively assess effectiveness?
Workshop | WeVideo
- Basic editing in Timeline Mode
- Multiple tracks -> video
- Video Levels (Dissolve)
- Animation
- Titles
- Audio
- Audio Levels
- Multiple tracks -> audio
Thursday
Noteworthy |
- Assignment Due (in class) –> Script & Storyboard
- ED386 | ED586 Zoom Classroom
Workshop | WeVideo
- Audio
- Audio Levels
- Multiple tracks -> audio
- Recording voice over narration & access to sound recordings
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Week Ten November 2 & 4 | Agenda
Tuesday
- Noteworthy |
- ED386 | ED586 Zoom Classroom
- Assignment Due in class | Digital Story Assessment Instrument
- Assignment due November 9 | Digital Story
- Workshop/Discussions |
- Digital Story Assessment Instrument
- Script & Storyboard
- Workshop | WeVideo (Continued)
- Audio Levels
- Multiple tracks -> audio
- Recording voice over narration & access to sound recordings
- Introduction | Distributed Cognition
Thursday
Reading | Salomon, G. & Perkins, D. (2005) Do Technologies Make Us Smarter? Intellectual Amplification With, Of and Through Technology.” pp. 71-86.
Noteworthy |
- ED386 | ED586 Zoom Classroom
- ED386 | ED586 Grade sheets
Discussion & Workshop |
- Learning with Things
- James Gee on Distributed CognitionAffordances | “An affordance is a feature of the world (real or virtual) that will allow for a certain action to be taken, but only if it is matched by an ability in an actor who has the wherewithal to carry out such an action.” James Gee, 2007, 25
- Distributed Intelligence & Off-loading | “Writing, digital computers, and networks each allow us to externalize some functions of the mind.” James Gee, 2007, 26
- Offloading | “By distributing knowledge and skills […] between the virtual characters (smart tools) and the real-world player– the player is guided and supported by the knowledge built into the virtual characters.” James Gee, 2007, 27.
- Manipulation and Distributed Knowledge | “… humans feel expanded and empowered when they can manipulate powerful tools in intricate ways that extend their area of effectiveness” James Gee, 2007, 33
- Distributed Cognition, EFFECTS OF, EFFECTS WITH & Common Educational Technologies Used in Schools
Discussion & Workshop | Digital Storytelling (open)
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Week Eleven November 9 & 11 | Agenda
Tuesday
Noteworthy |
- LGBT 101 for Allies | Wednesday, November 10, 2021 3:00-4:00 pm – Virtual via Zoom. Open to all JCU students, faculty and staff. Learn more and register here.
Reading | Martin, L. (2012). Connection, Translation, Off-Loading, and Monitoring: A Framework for Characterizing the Pedagogical Functions of Educational Technologies. Technology, Knowledge & Learning, 17(3), 87-107.
Discussion |
- Technology Observation Instrument
- Videos Technology Integration
- Distributed cognition & Comic Strip Resources
- Mini Lecture | Martin, L. (2012). The Pedagogical Functions of Educational Technologies
Digital Storytelling |
- Workshop | Finishing and uploading your digital story
- Festival Queue sign up here
- Digital Storytelling Festival
Thursday
Noteworthy | Assignments coming due next week
- Next Tuesday | Teachers and Students Using Classroom Technologies
- Next Thursday | Access to Technology
Discussion | Martin, L. (2012) | The Pedagogical Functions of Educational Technologies
Assignment Due (in class) | Digital Story
Workshop | How do I finish and download my export?
Digital Storytelling |
- Festival Queue sign up here
- Digital Storytelling Festival
Viewing and Discussion | Videos Technology Integration
Friday 12 November
Assignment Due | Your assessment of your digital story using your DS assessment instrument (submit through email)
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Week Twelve November 16 & 18 | Agenda
Tuesday
Reading | Morgan, M., Brickell, G., Harper, B. (2008). Applying distributed cognition theory to the redesign of the ‘Copy and Paste’ function in order to promote appropriate learning outcomes. Computers & Education, 50(1), 125-147. [Focus on pages 125-132]
Noteworthy |
Assignment Due | Teachers and Students Using Classroom Technologies
Discussions | Distributed Cognition Exploration
- Functions –> (Review) Martin, L. (2012) | Pedagogical Functions of Educational Technologies
- Strategies –> Morgan, M., Brickell, G., Harper, B. (2008). |
Introduction | The TPACK Exploration
Viewing | TPACK in Two Minutes
Thursday
Reading | Harris, J., Hofer, M. Schmidt, D., Blanchard, M, Young, C., Grandgenett, N. and Van Olphen, M. (2010) “Grounded” Technology Integration: Instructional Planning Using Curriculum-Based Activity Type Taxonomies. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. 18(4), 573-605.
Noteworthy |
Assignment Due | Field Observation II Access to Technology
Review –> Specific interaction strategies |
- Copy & Paste
- Think : Pair : Share
- Kahoot
Discussions | But what are the interaction strategies supposed to do?
- From Interaction Strategies towards TPACK Learning Activity Types (Slides 1-4)
- Interaction Strategies
- Because my students are using (thinking with) a this technology in this specific way, I expect cognitive amplification in these areas: consider, for example, Bloom’s Taxonomy).
Discussions |
- Final thoughts & questions | Distributed Cognition Exploration
- Introduction | The TPACK Exploration
Viewing | Brief video |TPACK in Two Minutes
TPACK & Learning Activity Types |
- The Learning Activity Types Website
- Interactive [K-6 Literacy] Activity Types taxonomy
- Science Learning Activity Types
- What are Learning Activity Types?
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Week Thirteen November 30 and December 2 | Agenda
Tuesday
Reading | Koehler, M. J., & Mishra, P. (2009). What is technological pedagogical content knowledge?
Noteworthy | Final Exam –> Tuesday 14 December 1:00pm-2:50pm
Thoughts & questions | Distributed Cognition Exploration
Discussion | The TPACK Exploration
A. The Sections of the The TPACK Exploration
B. TPACK & Learning Activity Types | (Review)
- Instruction 4.3 (Where LATs fit in the lesson design)
- What are Learning Activity Types?
- The Learning Activity Types Website
- Interactive [K-6 Literacy] Activity Types taxonomy
- Science Learning Activity Types
C. | Pedagogical Content Knowledge & Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
- C –> What is Curriculum?
- P –> What is Pedagogy? Pedagogical Knowledge
- PCK –> What is Pedagogical Content Knowledge
- TPACK –> What is Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge?
Activity | Think:Pair:Share–> Learning Activity Types, Finding Apps & Thinking more about Affordances with the help of Common Sense Education
Assignment Due | Distributed Cognition
Thursday
Noteworthy | Final Exam –> Tuesday 14 December 1:00pm-2:50pm
C. | Pedagogical Content Knowledge & Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
- C –> What is Curriculum?
- P –> What is Pedagogy? Pedagogical Knowledge
- PCK –> What is Pedagogical Content Knowledge
- TPACK –> What is Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge?
Activity | Think:Pair:Share–> Learning Activity Types, Finding Apps & Thinking more about Affordances with the help of Common Sense Education
Assignment Due | Distributed Cognition
Reading | Koehler, M. J., & Mishra, P. (2009). What is technological pedagogical content knowledge?
Noteworthy |
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Week Fourteen December 7 & 9 | Agenda
Tuesday
Noteworthy | Final Exam –> Tuesday 14 December 1:00pm-2:50pm
Discussion | The TPACK Exploration
Activity | TPACK –> Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Thursday
Discussion | The TPACK Exploration
Activity | TPACK –> Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Week Fifteen December 14 | Final Exam 1:00pm-2:50pm
Educational Technology, Retrospective
- Assignment Due in class | TPACK Design
- ALL TPACK DESIGN PROJECTS ARE TO BE TURNED IN THROUGH EMAIL AS A SHARED GOOGLE DOC. Please DO NOT POST YOUR TPACK PROJECT TO YOUR WebLog!
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