Course #1- Information Literacy and Ourselves as Learners
(SUNY: Adult Learning in the Workplace ADE 634)

Weeks	Face-to-Face Dates	Focus	Readings	Assignments Note: All assignments are to be posted on your blog unless otherwise noted.
Week 1: Feb. 17 - 21	F2F: Wed, Feb. 17 F2F: Sat, Feb. 20	Getting Started with the Tools: Wikis, Blogs, PLNs & Google Search	1. Engage Me or Enrage Meby Marc Prensky (Educause) 2. Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth ProjectOverview pg. 4-5, and "Hanging Out" 13 - 20 (MacArthur Foundation Report) 3. World Without Walls: Learning Well With Othersby Will Richardson (Edutopia) 4. Disrupting Class: Student-Centric Education Is the Futureby Dr. Clayton Christensen (Edutopia)	On the wiki: Add your profile to the profiles page On your blog: What you hope to get out of this course
Week 2: Feb. 22 - 28		Learning Theories	1. Your RSS Reader 2.[New] Bloom's Taxonomy Digitallyby Andrew Churches (Tech & Learning)Additional Recommended Reading 3. Connectivism:A Learning Theory for the Digital Ageby George Siemens (eLearnSpace) 4. Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project"Messing Around" pg. 20 - 28 (MacArthur Foundation Report)	Reflecting on your reading:How are your thoughts changing?(Connectivism, New Bloom's Taxonomy, Messing Around)
Week 3: March 1 - 7		Application of Tech in the Classroom	1. Your RSS Reader 2. Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project"Geeking Out" pg. 28 - 34 (MacArthur Foundation Report) 3. Reinventing Project-Based Learning (Handout) 4.Nets for Students and Teachers	Reflecting on your reading: Write a Project Sketch (pg. 69 PBL) that incorporates all the reading from this week. Make sure you describe how you meet at least one Student NETs standard
Week 4: March 8 - 14	F2F: Sat, Mar 13	Implications in the Classroom	1. Your RSS Reader 2. Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroomby Mark Prensky (Edutopia) 3. Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project"Conclusions and Implications" pg. 35 - 39 (MacArthur Foundation Report)	Reflecting on your reading: What are the implications for teaching & learning? (Adopt and Adapt, Conclusion, Implications)
Week 5: March 15 -21	F2F: Wed, Mar 17	Changing the Learning Landscape	1. Your RSS Reader 2. Horizon Report 2010 (.pdf version of report) 3. Understanding by Design Introduction	Blog post: Final course reflection on the process of creating your final project Wiki Assignments: Final Project

Course Description:

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.

ISTE NETS for Teachers Addressed:

2: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments: Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S.

a. Teachers: design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning: Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society.

Teachers:

a. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use
information resources to support research and learning

4. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership: Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:

a. Participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student
learning
c. Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning
d. Contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and
community

Enduring Understandings

• Bias influences and shapes information and interpretation of truth
• Truth can be determined or accepted in many ways
• Answers to questions, guidance and support can be found in many forms, mediums and connections
• Reflection is a powerful self improvement learning tool
• Multiple intelligences exist in a community of learners
• Each learner has set of optimal learning conditions and strategies

Essential Questions:

• How do I find and use information to construct meaning and solve problems?
• How do I effectively communicate?
• How do I learn best?

Assessment:

Students will author and participate in reflective blogging practice throughout the course by creating individual blogs and establishing a Personal Learning Environment.

Supporting Tasks:

• Learning search syntax. Assessment: find and evaluate content-related sites using effective search techniques
• Setting up a blog
• Creating a PLE
• Reading research-based articles
• Experiencing and reflecting on different methods of receiving information
• Completing a group project to apply knowledge in the classroom