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
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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 (
- twitter-handbook-for-teachers.pdf
- ).
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Discussion/Community
Emerging Technologies:
- 3D Printing
- BYOD
- Cloud Computing
- Flipped Classroom
- Game-based Learning
- Intuitive Technology (Differentiated Instruction)
- Learning Analytics
- Mobile Technologies
- MOOC's
- Open Content
- Tablet Computing
- UDL (Universal Design for Learning)
- Virtual Assistants (HE)
- Virtual & Augmented Reality
- Wearable Technology
- Wearable Technology