Lead Faculty: Dr. Cynthia Sistek-Chandler
Prerequisite
EDT 605
Course Description
This course focuses on ways to integrate technology as a tool for communication, inquiry, and construction for meaningful learning in K-16 and corporate classrooms. Students apply traditional learning theories to new technology-based methods and techniques, including lesson-based Web projects, chat sessions, and virtual learning communities. Students attain a working knowledge of how to evaluate and operate selected software, design web pages and WebQuests, download files, use listservs, manage school servers, and utilize firewalls. Students wrestle with contemporary issues involving the protection of children on the Internet, copyright law, netiquette, censorship, and the future of the Internet.