I really enjoyed the first class. It looks like we are going to be learning about a lot of exciting technologies and ways to "meaningfully" incorporate them into instruction. A theme that I am sure will be overarching through School Library Media Classes is the standards and objectives drive the use of technology - Technology should not be used for technology's sake. I'm already aware of some of the technologies that are being used for university level distance ed students, but it will be fun to find out more...
Last semester I took a 6 credit class - Introduction to Professional Teaching and Learning, where we did intensive work with designing lessons around standards and objectives. I think working with the School Library Media Standards in the Voluntary State Curriculum and AASL's Standards for the 21st Century Learner will serve me well in LBSC 642. At the time, however, I was rebelling about all of the lesson planning and educational theory that the class contained. Yeah, I know it was an education class, but I did expect it to be so intense (most of my MLIS classes were not that intense). At any rate, I think it's given me a good foundation.
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Megan - like your labels. I'm glad you shared that you have taken the Professional Teaching and Learning class. I hope Sheri and I can call upon you to share what you took away from that course with this group. We don't have time to really delve into instructional design, but technology can really only be effective if it is used to support the acquisition or creation of knowledge, that tool idea we talked about in class.
ReplyDeleteWe will introduce the class to the AASL and NETS-S standards and they will be threaded throughout the course, a framework for applying and understanding the technologies.