Course Objectives

• Evaluate best practices for using social media to promote improvement in teacher practice.
• Analyze how to use resources (people) online to tailor instruction.
• Use social media to find relevant new connections, conversations, and resources.
• Analyze the correlation between reflection and improvement in teacher practice.
• Formalize a plan to use technological tools to aid reflection of your current practice on a regular basis.
• Examine educators’ blogs for signs of reflection.
• Analyze methods for using technological tools to improve collaboration, both qualitatively and for ease of use.
• Evaluate collaboration tools and techniques to determine the best use cases for teachers and students.
• Use collaboration software with your students.
• Examine methods for letting students use technology to interact with each other, the teacher, and the lesson.
• Understand how to use technology tools to augment lesson activities specifically for increasing engagement and interaction.
• Judge the effectiveness of demonstrating mastery through varied media (text, pictures, movies, music, etc.).
• Analyze the strengths and weakness of various media in terms of communicating information thoroughly and effectively.
• Create a digital story to use as a model or as part of a lesson.
• Infer whether specific information online is most likely true or false based on a number of factors, including but not limited to: writer authority, bias, relevance, timeliness, support, and linguistic style.
• Apply proper digital literacy techniques when doing professional research and when teaching students to conduct research.

Syllabus

(ASCD PD Online course, 2016) Self-paced asynchronous online course. Upon completion, learners will be awarded an ASCD Certificate worth up to 20 Clock Hours.