Course website: http://edpt200.mcgill.ca Class blogs: to be posted on MyCourses ~ Course hashtag: #edpt200
Course Lecturer: Sam Bruzzese
Course Website: http://edpt200.mcgill.ca
Sam's email: sam.bruzzese@mcgill.ca
Bluesky: @sbruzzese.org Course hashtag: #edpt200
Course will take place on Monday night from 6:05 to 8:55 in room B129
Office hours: On Zoom or by apt. in Sam's office between 5 and 6 pm before class
Students who complete the course will meet the requirements of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (2024).Here's the Student Standards (2024) from ISTE.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course. However, the main focus of the course will be to ensure you learn how to integrate technology in the classroom and your life!
Course Objectives:
To instill a desire to learn to use technology in the classroom.
To understand how technology can be and is being used in classrooms today.
To provide a history of educational technology development in the 21st century (developments so far, anyways. :)
To understand and use Web 2.0 technologies and multimedia authoring tools.
To develop skills in integrating computers in different curriculum areas.
To gain an understanding of Quebec's Education Program and the Digital Action Plan**.*
We will spend time exploring and thinking about how AI literacy will impact your future career by using draft version of the OECD draft version of their AI Literacy Framework:
AI literacy framework & other disciplines
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”