Syllabus

... part of George Norht's and Techer Explorer Center's Web site at UNO ... Updated: October 18, 1998

Computers in Education

EDCI 4993, Fall 1998
4:30 to 7:15, Mondays

Syllabus
and in class activities for October 19.

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	\| Evaluation \| Grading \| Who is George North \| Class Web Pages \|

Date	Description
Prior Weeks	7 class meetings left!!!

This Week Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Monday, October 19 Back to the Top	Practice teaching with technology ... your turn to run our class? Group Presentation - One Computer Classroom, two presentation left? House Keeping I am equally impressed. Your in class presentaions were great! Your written responses to the presentation are great! Some of your comments -- "I particularly liked the group that studied the weather and then carried the idea over into English by the writing of a Haiku. ... Making these presentations was a good way of "all teaching each other". "I loved the Titanic presentation. It was ingenious to use one web site for four different subjects." " ... how difficult it is to develop a strategy for a lesson involving the Internet or computer resources with only one computer in the classroom. It takes ingenuity and creativity on the teacher's part. ... how easy it was to develop activities or incorporate them into the lesson once you have figured out the logistics of the one computer problem." "I think that there is one thing that we can do to make this project more useful. I believe that it would be beneficial to all of us if each group could build a web page or give handouts about the presentation." "I was really interested in the way we all tried the cross-curricular approach to the sites. Is this the way of the future? Should we restructure our curricula so that it encompasses all disciplines ..." Check Syllabus dates for October 26 and November 2 for interesting info! If you haven't yet, you need to meet individually with me to discuss setting personal goals to meet the Skills competency requirements of this class. How many have read E-mail more than once this week? How about Emmit? Every week in class Update your class web page. Fill in the Comments section of your class web page with the answer to this week's question. You MUST repeat the question as part of your answer, so that I may know you are answering the right question. Add at least two Links to your class web page. Great Presentation last week, THANKS!!! This week in class! Presentation 1 Anyone ready for an individual presentation to our class ... everyone is expected to "practice teaching with technology" at least once ... more is better. Remember, this is part of your evaluation for this class. This week's assignment - is the same as last week. If you already turned in this assignment, you get a week off! If not, I expect you to do so. This written assignment should be considered part of Presentation 1, and everyone should submit a written response ... to Emmit, I hope. Write a one page essay. -- This paper is a reflection on the in class presentations. What did you learn from working on your own presentation? What did you learn from your classmates presentations? What could the instructor do to make this project more useful?
Tuesday, October 20	John Dewey's Birthday
Thursday, October 22	Final Drop Date?
Monday, October 26	Practice teaching with technology One-page outline of Semester Project due at beginning of class (4:30). This will be a SPECIAL meeting for our class. Our guest will be Lee Domangue, a representative of Nystrom. He will present to us more ideas of how to include one computer into lesson plans. Please, note we will still have time for you to practice teaching with technology.
Thursday, October 29	My Wife's Birthday, visit her Web Site
Monday, November 2	Practice teaching with technology Tonight our class will meet at another location, the New Orleans High School for Math and Science. One of our fellow students, Bob Nordling is, and for the last several years, a teacher at NOHSMS. We have great plans for this night, please make efforts to attend.
Monday, November 9	Practice teaching with technology
Sunday, November 15	My Father's Birthday, visit his Web SIte
Monday, November 16	Practice teaching with technology
Monday, November 23	Practice teaching with technology
Thursday, November 26	Thanksgiving
Monday, November 30	Our last regular class: Semester Project due at beginning of class (4:30 PM) Practice teaching with technology
Wednesday, December 2	Last day of regular classes
Friday, December 4	Final Exams begin
Monday, December 7	Our Final Exam: Self-evaluations due Practice teaching with technology

Prior Dates	Description
Monday, August 24	see Old Syllabus
Monday, August 31	see Old Syllabus
Monday, September 7	Labor Day, no class
Monday, September 14	see Old Syllabus
Monday, September 21	see Old Syllabus
Monday, September 28	hurricane Georges
Monday, October 5	see Old Syllabus
Monday, October 12	see Old Syllabus

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	\| Evaluation \| Grading \| Who is George North \| Class Web Pages \|

There are no required texts for this class. From time to time we will mention and discuss some of the available texts covering this topic. You are encouraged to bring to class any books you find interesting and share these with the rest of us. Bring books and other recourses to class is one way to satisfy the class participation requirement.

Course Description	\| Top \| Important Dates \| Texts & Resources \| Objectives \|
	\| Evaluation \| Grading \| Who is George North \| Class Web Pages \|

This course is intended to help educators become as comfortable with "Computers in Education" as they are with books and blackboards. The truth actually is that computers are no longer the issue. Computers just happen to be the first tools that provide easy access to global Information Networks.

Information Networks:

provide educators with access to abundant resources;

provide students with new ways to participate in knowledge creation;

provide simultaneous access to information and publishing;

bring us closer to the goal of Universal Education;

empower students, decreasing the roll of teachers as purveyors of knowledge;

make teachers and students partners in learning;

join together teachers, students, parents, and community members;

build Communities of Learners in a single location (the classroom);

join learning scenarios with abundant resources;

The goal is learning -- taking place in a social context where knowledge is created from information with action guided by pedagogy.

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Helping educators develop the skills needed for effective integration of computing resources in the classroom is the foundation for the objectives of this class.

Students will be given the opportunity:

To develop the vocabulary needed to understand the terminology found in computing.

To improve competency in identifying appropriate uses of computers in the classroom.

To improve conceptual understanding of the different kinds of computer software.

To improve the computer skills needed to aid in classroom management.

To improve the computer skills needed to teach computer skills.

To demonstrate competency in a broad range of computer programs.

Evaluation	\| Top \| Important Dates \| Texts & Resources \| Course Description \|
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Please note that it is possible to earn more than 100 points. This is done to allow students flexibility in choosing areas of concentration. Read carefully each of the five evaluation areas below. Hint ... follow the links to details of each area.

15 points - In class presentation -- "The One Computer Classroom."

15 points - In class presentation -- "Teaching with Technology"

20 points - Class participation

30 points - Semester project.

30 points - Skills competency, 10 points each (area of concentration)

Semester project is due at the beginning of class -- Monday, November 31, 4:30 PM.

Final grade will be based in large on student's self-evaluation. Remember, evaluations are due at the beginning of our last class -- December 7, 4:30 PM.

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A = 90 - 100 points

B = 80 - 89

C = 70 - 79

etc.

Who is George North	\| Top \| Important Dates \| Texts & Resources \| Course Description \|
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Today, I am a student in the Ph.D. program, College of Education, Curriculum & Instruction. In my past life, for 30 years, I was a systems analyst, programmer, Information Systems manager, and computer consultant. I earned a B.S. in

Liberal Arts from the University of the State of New York, and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Orleans. My goal is to teach at the college level ... to teach Information Systems to teachers.

George North
Office: ED 308A
Phone: 280-6523
Home: 834-1891
E-mail: gnorth@mac.com
Web Site: http://georgenorth.net/~george/georgeHome.php
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