Course website: https://sites.google.com/view/edpe535/home Class blogs: coming soon  ~ Course hashtag: #edpe535

Instructor / Course Information:

Sam Bruzzese 

Class Website:  https://sites.google.com/view/edpe535/home  Mighty Network: coming soon

Email: sam.bruzzese@mcgill.ca 

Sam's page: http://sbruzzese.org Bluesky: @samb52.bsky.social Course hashtag: #edpe535

Course will take place on Monday night from 6:05 to 8:55 in room 627

Office hours:  5 to 6 pm or online (via ZOOM). Details are given during class 1.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Understand and apply key instructional design theories and models in educational settings.

2. Develop instructional materials using various design strategies tailored for classroom use.

3. Evaluate the effectiveness of instructional interventions in educational contexts.

4. Utilize technology to enhance learning experiences in the classroom.

5. Collaborate with stakeholders to design and implement instructional design solutions in schools.

The class  is designed to: 

• help practicing and future teachers instructional design in their daily teaching practices. 

• it is a practical, hands-on course that is grounded in constructivist learning theory. 

• the students will learn by engaging in authentic tasks in a studio-based pedagogy in an active learning student environment.

• the students will also be introduced to the ISTE student (2016) and teacher (2017) standards  as well Quebec's Digital Action Plan for Education and Higher Education to help us focus on student engagement and motivation throughout the semester.

The course directly targets the development and mastery of the following professional teacher competencies updated in 2021  (Quebec Professional Teacher Competencies):

All the new teacher competencies are covered in the course with a special focus on Competency 12: Mobilize digital technologies As it overlaps with all other competencies. For example, here's some specific objectives

The students who successfully complete the course will also be able to:

• “demonstrate critical judgement regarding the real benefits and limitations of ICT as teaching and learning resources;

• demonstrate a general understanding of the possibilities offered by ICT (and the internet in particular) for teaching and learning, and know how to integrate ICT in a functional manner into teaching/learning activities, when appropriate;

• use ICT effectively in different aspects of his or her intellectual and professional life: communication, research, information processing, evaluation, interaction with colleagues or experts, etc;

• effectively transmit the ability to use ICT to his or her students in order to support the collective construction of learning in a well-structured, critical manner”