ECEL517: Integrating Science and Technology in Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms

Starting Summer 2012: Inquiry based science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) experiences for elementary instruction serve as a framework for this course. In this course, students examine the process of discovery through individual and group activities in STEM grounded in critical thinking and problem solving activities, effective pedagogical strategies that engage children in the wonder of STEM, a survey of dominant STEM curricula, and analysis of the impact policy documents have on the work of elementary educators. Opportunities for fieldwork. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

EDTC510: Technology Planning for Education Renewal

Students assist district or organizational leaders in the systemic design and implementation of a technology plan that is customized for a school or organization's philosophy, budget, and individual staff needs and abilities. Comprehensive planning considers goals, standards, resources, community structures, school or organization-based support, and staff development. Students conduct a needs assessment, facilitate planning meetings among leaders, educators, staff, parents and community representatives and address practical issues of purchasing and technical support. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

Prerequisites: EDTC 500, EDTC 501, and EDTC 502 or graduate program coordinator's approval.

EDTC530: Integrating Technology Across the Secondary Curriculum

Ths laboratory course provides students with hands-on experiences in creating educational and instructional technology environments that are student-centered, collaborative, inquiry-based, and emphasize critical thinking. The course explores the fundamentals of interactive design using both MacIntosh and PC-based computer platforms. Students orchestrate object, print, video and digital media technologies to support specific curricular goals at the middle- and high-school levels. (3 hours lab.) 3 sh.

Prerequisites: EDTC 500 and EDTC 501 or graduate program coordinator's approval.

MEDI500: Media, Technology, and Learning in the Curriculum

The organizing and integrating of media in school curricula and other educational programs. Identifying instructional purposes and defining roles for technology and media in learning and teaching. Examining and comparing curriculum designs for their concordance with the procedures of technology in education. Selection and evaluation of materials. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

MEDI503: Critical Basics of Media and Technology Production

This course introduces critical and practical frameworks for producing educational media. Students engage in hands-on production of multiple media forms to support a variety of curricular goals, with emphasis on digital media. Students explore the possibilities of multimedia and non-linear teaching and learning for educators and learn the fundamentals of interactive and integrative curriculum design across MacIntosh and PC-based computer platforms. Open to matriculating and non-matriculating students. (3 hours laboratory.) 3 sh.

MEDI506: Evaluation and Selection of Educational Media

Emphasizes the evaluation and selection of research materials in multiple media formats - from print to digital. The course provides opportunities to discover what kinds of resources are available and generate criteria for evaluating the quality and usefulness of new and traditional media in supporting the research process. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

MEDI520: Production of Materials for Media Technology

For developing advanced proficiency in preparing audio, photographic, and graphic materials. Especially for persons charged with materials preparation in media centers. Laboratory instruction. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

MEDI521: Design of Innovative Curriculum Resources

Emphasis on systems design, software, program development, creative development of media for special learning situations, basic design of programmed instruction and multi-media techniques. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

MEDI523: Integrating Technology Across the Elementary Curriculum

This laboratory course provides students with hands-on experience in creating educational and instructional technology environments that are student-centered, collaborative, inquiry-based, and emphasize critical thinking. The course explores the fundamentals of interactive design using both MacIntosh and PC-based computer platforms. Students orchestrate object, print, video and digital media technologies to support specific curricular goals at the early childhood and elementary levels. (3 hours lab.) 3 sh.

MUED518: Technology for Music Teachers

A history and overview of computer platforms and applications for music. A review of pre-college, collegiate, and professional music software; the basics of music programming; a review of MIDI applications and interfaces; the use of interactive media in music pedagogy; and the future of computer applications in this field. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

READ503: Literature for Adolescents

Offers background for the development of recreational reading programs in middle schools and high schools. Literature written for students, as well as literature intended to be read widely by adolescents, criteria for book selection, censorship, role of mass media, minority group identification through books, bibliotherapy, bibliographic tools, and the importance of the librarian. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

READ522: History of Literacy and Media

This course examines literacy evolutions through physical innovations from cuneiform to the printing press to the internet, educational initiatives from the tutor system to mandated public education to No Child Left Behind, and historical eras from ancient to modern to post-modern. This course will run as a seminar co-developed by the professor and students. This class engages students in learning the history of literacy and literacy pedagogy and, through that, wrestling with issues of discourse, culture, theory, and practice in education and society. Starting Summer 2012: Students learn about the history of literacy and media from early sign-making systems, to the printing press, to broadcast media and education, to the internet, and across ancient, modern and post-modern eras. Students also learn the history of a range of literacy educational initiatives from Dame Schools and tutor systems, to literacy "readers" in schools, to national policies that shape education, and more. In learning about the history of literacy and media, students engage with issues concerning dominant literacy discourses in education and wider society, children's and youths' literacy practices and the extent to which these are built upon in schools, and the relationship between literacy policies and classroom practices over time. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

Prerequisites: READ 500 or READ 501 or instructor's permission.

READ524: Teaching Multiethnic Literature in P-8 Classrooms

This graduate-level course is designed to assist in-service teachers and school media specialists in their efforts to examine multiethnic children's literature as both aesthetic forms and pedagogical tools. Students will analyze the social, political, and educational implications of such literature and its use in P-8 classrooms. This course will help teachers to use multiethnic children's literature more frequently in their respective classrooms and to approach that responsibility with confidence. Starting Summer 2012: Students examine multiethnic children's literature as aesthetic forms and pedagogical tools. Students analyze the social, political, and education implications of this literature and its use in P-8 classrooms. Students are encouraged to introduce powerful, well-written and illustrated, and engaging literature into their classroom teaching across a range of subject areas as they explore important topics, such as race, ethnicity, and democracy; processes such as critical thinking and critical media analysis; and issues of power and privilege. Students learn to use this literature effectively and confidently within a range of curriculum and assessment structures. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

READ525: Literacies, Digital Technology and Learning

This course is designed to provide a context in which pre-service and in-service teachers can explore a range of "new" Literacies and the implications of these new Literacies for school-based literacy education. This course comprises a theoretical dimension that focuses on literacy as a social practice, and a practical dimension that includes hands-on use of a range of new digital technologies and new literacy practices. Attention will be paid to developing effective ways of taking up new Literacies in classroom contexts. Starting Summer 2012: Within this course, students examine a range of theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to identifying and understanding new literacies. In particular, students engage with sociocultural approaches to understanding and exploring new literacies that focus on literacy in connection with social practices. Students also evaluate popular literacy and technology uses in classrooms, and develop their own strategies for bringing together literacy learning and digital technologies in well informed and forward-looking ways in schools. (3 hours lecture.) 3 sh.

SPED585: Technology for Inclusive Classrooms

The course is designed to provide educators with an understanding of how to use technology as a seamless part of the teaching and learning experience for students with disabilities in inclusive settings. Two main purposes for students with disabilities will be emphasized. Teachers will learn how to provide access to the curriculum for students with disabilities by using the principles of Universal Design for Learning as a framework for curriculum design. They will learn how to utilize technology to meet the unique needs of students with disabilities in order for them to attain maximum independence and participation in all environments. () 2 - 3 sh.

Prerequisites: SPED 579. Students must be enrolled in a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT), Instructional Teaching Certificate (CRI), Educational Services Certificate (CRE) or Master of Education (MED).