edpe 640

Welcome to Emerging Technologies for Educational Change (EDPE 640)!

Course Overview:

Emerging technologies have the power to sustain, transform, and disrupt education.

Students will work with and explore emerging technologies that may have a large impact

on teaching, learning, research and creative expression. EDPE 640 is a practical hands-on course grounded in constructivist learning theory.

Students will build a personal learning network (PLN) using Twitter and create a blog to post reflections and thoughts on themselves as learners, students, and teachers. These tools will also be used to reflect on:

systems thinking (cybernetics)
the 'big' ideas (in education and life:)
thinking about the 'thinking' (metacognition)

Required Texts:

Please purchase these books in the bookstore:

Standing in the Gap: Empowering Teachers Through Connected Resources by Lisa Dabbs & Nicol Howard. Corwin Press (August, 2015).
Stratosphere by Michael Fullan (2012)

These texts are provided free of charge. They will be found in your MyCourses course page:

Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective edited by Chrystalla Mouza and Nancy Lavigne. (also found here: Springer Link
Teaching and technology: New tools for new times*. Fishman, B., & Dede, C. (in preparation). Will be pub
lished in D. Gitomer & C. Bell (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Teaching, 5th Edition (American Educational Research Association). New York, NY: Springer.

Here's the Fall 2015 Structured Overview

Video Teasers & Trailers

Watch several videos to you thinking about technology, learning, and teaching.
Interview with James Gee on Gaming Environments

Course Framework

The following resources will be used to frame the course:

New open source resources for Fall 2015 course:

Teaching in a Digital Age by A. W. Bates
Teaching Crowds: Learning & Social Media by Jon Dron & Terry Anderson. ( book by chapter in PDF)

Resources from last year:

Stratosphere by Michael Fullan
Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective edited by Chrystalla Mouza and Nancy Lavigne. (also found here: Springer Link)
Teaching and technology: New tools for new times*.** Fishman, B., & Dede, C. (in preparation). Will be published in D. Gitomer & C. Bell (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Teaching, 5th Edition (American Educational Research Association). New York, NY: Springer.
Standing in the Gap: Empowering Teachers Through Connected Resources by Lisa Dabbs & Nicol Howard. Corwin Press (August, 2015).
Who Owns the Learning by Allan November
Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds by Julie Lindsay and Vicki A. Davis.
Digital Teaching Platforms edited by Chris Dede and John Richards.
Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager
Modelling with Technology: Mindtools for Conceptual Change by David H. Jonassen.
The World is Open by Curtis Bonk (Mindmap)
NMC Horizon Project by New Media Consortium. Latest reports 2015 on K-12 and Higher Ed editions (published summer 2015).

not yet published

Course Website, Twitter #hashtag:

Web Course Site: http://edpe640.wikispaces.com
Twitter Hashtag: #edpe640
Twitter Handbook for Educators (
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