The COETAIL Courses:
COETAIL is a 5-course (15-credit) certificate program designed by, and for, international school teachers interested in developing their technology skills in an authentic, project-based environment. All courses include specific skills and concepts essential for the 1:1 classroom – including blogging, understanding copyright and Creative Commons, digital storytelling, and building a personal learning network. Each class includes time to develop technology-rich projects to implement in your classroom.
The specific content in each course is subject to change as new technologies are constantly introduced. The pedagogy and theory of each class remains the same, but the actual tool we use to explore these concepts may change.
Course 1: Information Literacy and Ourselves as Learners
(SUNY: ADE 634 Adult Learning in the Workplace)
A foundation course, introducing learners to the methods of information literacy in the 21st century. Independent learning requires that students and teachers are able to evaluate the authenticity, relevance and bias of information that inundates us. Tools and strategies for teachers and students for accessing, filtering, evaluating and applying information will be addressed. This course will address meta-cognition and an awareness of how we learn in a digital landscape. Students will be provided with strategies for reflective practice and using prior knowledge to build understanding and deal with new technology.
- Getting started with the Tools: wikis, blogs, PLN, Google Search
- Learning Theories
- Applications of technology in the classroom
- Implications in the classroom
- Changing the landscape of learning
Course 2: 21st Century Literacy Ideas, Questions, and Issues
(SUNY: EDC 601 Instructional Technologies)
The 21st Century learner had been bombarded with new technology, access to wide ranging global communication, and a plethora of information. Accompanying this new world of learning are ethical, moral, social, and emotional considerations that are changing the way in which our students are interacting with the world. This course will explore current issues inherent in our technological world.
- Digital Footprint and Digital Divide
- Privacy Online
- Copyright Usage and Plagiarism
- Student Safety and Bullying
- Understanding Web Connections
- Mass Collaboration
Course 3:Visual Literacy: Effective Communicators and Creators
(SUNY: EDC 6054 Authoring for Educators)
The curriculum of design and attention to aesthetic has always been the property of the visual arts, however as so much our media is now consumed and created electronically a new set of visual literacies have emerged. Awareness of how an audience interacts with that medium and how to take advantage of this to strengthen their message or purpose for communication will be addressed.
- Intro to Visual Literacy
- Understanding Web Design and Reading
- Web Pages
- Understanding presentation design
- Digital Storytelling
- Video and video editing
- Screen casting
- How to create a video
Course 4: Technology: A Catalyst for Learning
(SUNY: EDC 672 The Microcomputer in the Instructional Program)
Research based best practice for the embedded use of technology for learning will be shared and practiced. The focus will be on the habits that provide students with the ability to use technology for its greatest learning advantage. The best use of laptop computers, Smart boards, etc will be addressed as embedded tools to foster optimum learning of the curriculum. The optimal use of communication tools such as pod casts, blogs, nings, wikis, and voice threads will be addressed with tips for management and strategies to promote maximum learning in classrooms.
- ISTE NETs for Student Learning
- ISTE NETs for Teachers and Administrators
- Management and strategies for the use of laptops in the classroom
- Management and strategies for Smart Board and peripherals
Course 5: Alive in the Classroom: Applied Web 2.0 Technology for Learning (SUNY: EDC 594 Emerging Technologies to Support Teaching and Learning)
The course will be about the classroom application, and reflection on the use of web 2.0 technology in the classroom. Participants will be asked to create a plan for the embedded use of technology to foster learning, share with the group and offer feedback on their cohorts’ embedded use of technology for learning. Did the use of technology lead to deeper learning?