The Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy has been designed to meet the professional development needs of exemplary International School educators including teachers and administrators. The certificate requires five courses which are described as follows:
Course #1 – Information Literacy and Ourselves as Learners
March 24th, 2011 – EARCOS Teacher’s Conference
(ADE 634: Adult Learning in the Workplace)
Cost: $700 (EARCOS Conference fee not-included)
A foundation course, introducing learners to the methods of information literacy in the 21st Century. Independent learning requires that students and teachers are able evaluate the authenticity, relevance and bias of information that inundates us. Tools and strategies for teacher 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. Student will be provided with strategies for reflective practice and using prior knowledge to build understanding and deal with new technology.
Course #2 – 21st Century Literacy Ideas, Questions, and Issues
April – May, 2011 (online)
(EDC 601: Instructional Technologies)
Cost: $700
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, and emotional considerations that are changing the way in which are students are interacting with the world. This course will explore current issues inherent in our technological world.
Course #3 – Visual Literacy: Effective Communicators and Creators
September – October, 2011 (online)
(EDC 604: Authoring for Educators)
Cost: $700
The curriculum of design and attention to aesthetic has always been the property of the visual arts, however as so much of 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.
Course #4 – Technology: A Catalyst for Learning (online)
November – December, 2011 (online)
(EDC 603: Instructional Design and Problem Solving with Technology)
Cost: $700
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, etcetera, 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.
Course #5 – Alive in the Classroom: Applied Web 2.0 Technology for Learning
January – March, 2012 (online and EARCOS Teacher’s Conference March 2012)
(EDC 594: Emerging Technologies to Support Teaching and Learning)
Cost: $700 (Not including cost of EARCOS Teacher’s Conference)
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?
