Overview
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Learn how to use technology to enhance course design, lesson planning, presentations, in-class activities, assessments, and student achievement and engagement.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Putting the "tech" into "teach"
- Rewriting your learning outcomes to include technology
- Aligning resources, activities, and assessments with outcomes
- About applying UDL principles
- Applying UDL principles: Sharing content in multiple formats
- Applying UDL principles: Motivating and engaging learners in multiple ways
- Applying UDL principles: Allowing learners to show what they know in multiple ways
- Why use technology to share content?
- Choosing appropriate technologies to share content
- Finding content for your class: Teachers as collage artists
- Recording lectures and presentations
- Creating your own instructional materials
- Enhancing lectures or presentations
- Sharing content with your students
- Asking students to create digital content
- Getting students to do the reading
- Using collaborative tools for content review
- Why use technology to facilitate interactivity?
- Choosing appropriate technologies to facilitate interactivity
- Engaging students in the classroom
- Facilitating active learning in the classroom
- Facilitating small-group work in the classroom
- Facilitating discussion
- Enabling study groups
- Facilitating team projects
- Facilitating virtual fieldwork
- Why use technology to assess learning?
- Choosing appropriate technologies to assess learning
- Using clickers to assess learning in the classroom
- Assessing lab work
- Administering digital quizzes, tests, and exams
- Assessing written work
- Assessing team projects
- Assessing student presentations
- Facilitating student self-assessments
- Facilitating peer-review activities
- Using eportfolios for authentic assessment and measuring growth
- Assessing teaching effectiveness
- Key take-aways
- Next steps
