edtech 597 4172 syllabus for intro to edutainment spring2013

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EDTECH 597-4172: Introduction to Edutainment

Instructor

Young Baek, Ph.D.

Professor

Boise State University

[email protected]

General Information

Semester: Spring 2013, January 22 May 10

Credits: 3 Credit Online Course

Course Meeting Times: 16 Weeks / 3 hours per week

CourseDescription

As information technology evolves, education is experiencing innovation through new technologiesincorporated into the classroom. Edutainment has existed throughout history acting in the form of

parables for social change and, acting as a motivator and facilitator to learning. In the digital age,

education can be created from cartoon, TV programs, and digital games to attract and maintain andaudience, whilst incorporating deliberate educational content and messages.

This course provides an overview of the new generation's traits, locating and searching forinstructional elements in cartoons, TV programs, and digital games. New emerging forms ofedutainment for like smartphones will also be introduced. Students will have an opportunity to play

with many types of edutainment in order to discuss how edutainment can be used in the classroom.Finally, students will make observations on how learning and fun can co-exist.

CourseObjectives

In this course, you will:

Recognize the characteristics of edutainment; Familiarize yourself with edutainment in various formats and analyze their instructional

elements;

Identify the most effective type of edutainment for a given learning topic;

Create a podcast discussing how edutainment theories can be incorporated into classroomteaching;

Reading comic strips and create a comic strip of your own; Create an educational video clip; Play and discuss digital games in education and design an educational game using Scratch

program by MIT;

Develop a lesson plan incorporating edutainment on a given topic.

Required Course Texts

All learning materials will be web-based.


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Schedule and Assignments

Course Schedule

The syllabus and schedule maybe adapted depending on the needs of the class.

TopicsStart

DateActivities

Week 1 Introduction and course overview

1. Read syllabus carefully to get an overview of this cours

e.

2. Understand learning outcomes of the course.3. Grasp edutainment: its background, pros and cons.4. Discuss learning in view of edutainment.

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Review Moodle course and

update profile

Read required articles

Visit listed websites Answer forum questions

Respond to classmates

posts

Week 2 Learning in digital age

1. Understand learning in digital age.

2.

Read and get an overview of the features of digital era.3. Understand the learners characteristics and their needs

in digital age.4. Understand future students learn style and learning acti

vities, notice changes in their learning style and activitie

s.

5. Understand the features of digital media and the changes of learners in digital age.

6. Discuss about the new generation's traits and entertainment strategies towards these changes.

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Read required articles Visit listed websites

Post to discussion board


posts

Week 3 Learning and play

1. Understand the concept of play in education and charac

teristics of play contributed to learning

2. Discover the effectiveness of play and the necessity of

education embedded in play.3. Discuss what you have learned through playing with giv

en activities.

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Visit listed websites

Participate in Discussion

Forum Respond to classmates

posts

Week 4 Understanding edutainment: definition andcharacteristics of edutainment

1. Define edutainment.

2.

Search for the origin, history and changes of edutainment.

3. Find and read edutainment cases.4. Discus educational potential of edutainment.5. Identify types of edutainment for learning.

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Participate in discussionforum

Choose one example fromvarious kinds of

edutainment, and explainhow they teach


posts

Week 5 Understanding edutainment: edutainmentcontents and interaction

1. Understand interactions in edutainment.

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Participate in discussionforum


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2. Read and explain how interaction works in edutainment.

3. Identify educational content integrated in edutainment.4. Discuss types and forms of edutainment content that ac

hieve learning effects.

Respond to classmatesposts

Week 6 Theories of edutainment

1. Read and discuss theoretical and practical researches in

edutainment.2. Identify learning theories embedded in edutainment.3. Compare typical frameworks and models of edutainmen

t.

4. Discus capabilities and implications of Flow theory, Moti

vation Theory, Constructivist theory, Activity theory, Narrative in Edutainment.

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Read required articles Visit listed websites Participate in discussion

forum


posts

Week 7 Edutainment in the classroom

1. Search a case of using edutainment in the classroom.

2.

Summarize and discuss the case.3. Project (1)

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Search a case of usingedutainment in the

classroom

create a podcast discussinghow edutainment theories

can be incorporated intoclassroom teaching

Week 8 Edutainment: instructional elements incartoon

1. Read and locate instructional elements in cartoon.

2. Indicate traits of cartoons as an edutainment.

3. Discuss about the necessity, kinds, role of teachers-students and implications of cartoon.

4. Discuss about pedagogical skills in cartoon

5.

Create a comic strip of your own

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Reading comic strips

Read required articles Participate in discussion

forum

Create a comic strip of yourown

Week 9 Edutainment research: cartoon

1. Read a case study of edutainment cartoon.

2. Get an idea on how researches can be done with edutai

nment cartoon.

3. Read the selected cartoon.4. Design a study on edutainment cartoon use in the class

room.

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Read the selected cartoon

Provide feedback on your

classmates comic

Week 10No class ---- Spring break 3/25 No class

Week 11 Edutainment: instructional elements in TV

program

1. Read and locate instructional elements in TV program.

2. Indicate traits of TV program as an edutainment.3. Discuss about the necessity, kinds, role of teachers-stu

dents and implications of TV program.

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Create an 8-10 minute'svideo clip


Forum Respond to classmates

posts


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4. Discuss about pedagogical skills in TV program.

Week 12 Edutainment: instructional elements indigital game

1. Play with selected games.

2. Understand instructional elements in digital game.3. Indicate traits of digital game as an edutainment.

4.

Discuss about the necessity, kinds, role of teachers-students and implications of digital game.

5. Discuss about pedagogical skills in digital game.

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Play selected games


Participate in DiscussionForum

Respond to classmatesposts

Week 13 Edutainment research: digital game

1. Read research papers on edutainment digital game.

2. Get an idea on how researches can be done with edutai

nment digital game.3. Play with selected digital game.

4. Design a study on edutainment digital game use in theclassroom.

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Forum


posts

Week 14 Designing games with Scratch (1)

1. Gain an overview of the Scratch environment.2. Understand how Scratch can be used in classroom

environments.3.

Recognize, understand, and apply statements,expressions, conditions, and loops in Scratch.

4. Design a simple animation with Scratch.

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Visit Scratch website

Download Scratch and

install

Explore and Read provide

recourses Design a simple animation

with Scratch

Share products with

classmates

Week 15 Designing games with Scratch (2)

1. Recognize, understand, and apply variables, events,and threads in Scratch.

2. Utilize Scratch Sensor board to create simple media

assets.3. Design a simple game.4.

Design a Scratch Project.

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Explore and Read provide

recourses to learn moreabout Scratch environments

Revise and refine gamedesign plan

Design a Scratch game

Post to discussion forum

Week 16 Final project

1. Final Project: Lesson Plan utilizing an edutainment

2. Reflection journal5/6

Create your lesson planutilizing an edutainment we

reviewed during the

semester

Reflection

Finalize project and submitcompleted final project

Posting of Assignments:Detailed information about assignments will be posted in Moodle. Assignments begin

on every Tuesday, and are typically due the following Tuesday as posted. Assignment and project informationwill be updated regularly throughout the semester.Please check Moodle at least twice per week to read announcements and check for assignment updates. Also,check your email at twice per week for course related correspondence.Note that the default email address in Moodle is your BSU email address. Please check your personal informationin Moodle to see if the email address listed there is the one you with to be contacted with. If not, please changeit right away.

Be aware that the university recommends that you plan on 3-4 hours of course work per credit per week for


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Distance Ed classes. For example, a 3-credit class would require 9-12 hours of your time per week (BSU DistanceEducation).

Assignment Submission: All assignments must be submitted by Tuesday on the assigned due dates inyour assignment.Assignments will be submitted in various formats whether it is via Discussion Board, Email,or posting to our student websites, etc. The methods will be outlined in each weekly assignment.

Here is a list of the assignments and projects for this semester:

Assignments Assignment

type

Points Due by

1 What do you think of learning

while playing?

Forum 20 01/29

2 Summarize digital era and

describe how it affects teachingand learning.

Upload a

single file

30 02/5

New generation's traits andentertainment strategies in digital

era

Upload asingle file

30 02/5

3 What was the most impressive

paper to read? Explain whatmakes you think so.

Upload a

single file

40 02/12

What was the significance ofplaying and learning withedutainment?

Forum 20 02/12

4 From the history of edutainment

evolution, describe characteristicsfor learning of each form.

Upload a

single file

30 02/19

Choose one example from various

kinds of edutainment, and explainhow they teach

Online text 30 02/19

5 Think about the interaction in

edutainment

Forum 35 02/26

6 Describe your understanding of

edutainment theories (Upload asingle file)

Upload a

single file

30 03/5

Describe how you can apply the

edutainment theories into your

teaching

Forum 10 03/5

7 Project (1) Upload a

single file

100 03/12

8 Explain comic strip'steaching/learning strategies.

Online text 20 03/19

Draw a comic strip of your own. Upload asingle file

20 03/19

9 Provide feedback on 3 of your

classmate's comic strips.

Upload a

single file

45 03/26

10 No Class - Spring Break

11 Describe selected edutainment TV

Program

Online text 40 04/9

Create an 8-10 minutes VideoClip and Upload it to YouTube.

Upload asingle file

60 04/9

12 Continue to play the game youselected and communicate with

your classmates and the

Forum 30 04/16
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instructor inside/outside the

game

Summarize one game from the

four given at the beginning of thisweek.

Upload a

single file

40 04/16

13 Criticize three research papers Upload asingle file

40 04/23

Design your research Forum 30 04/23

14 Scratch Discussion & SimpleAnimation

Forum 40 04/30

15 Design a Scratch game Upload asingle file

60 04/30

16 Project (2) Upload a

single file

200 05/14

Total Points 1000

Accommodations: To request academic accommodations for a disability, contact the Office of Disability

Services, Admin 114, (208) 426-1583. Students are required to provide documentation of their disability andmeet with a Disability Specialist prior to receiving accommodations. Information about a disability or healthcondition will be regarded as confidential.Faculty Initiated Drop: Please be advised that if you do not attend class at least once during the first week,you will be dropped from class.

Grades

Each assignment will be graded based on identified criteria. You can check your progress in Moodle by clickingthe Grades link on the left-hand navigation bar. Progress is updated as assignments are evaluated throughoutthe semester. Your final grade will be based on the following scale:

Total: 700 points

A+ 97% ~ 100% (679 ~ 700)

A 93% ~ 96% (651 ~ 678)

A- 90% ~ 92% (630 ~ 650)

B+ 87% ~ 89% (609 629)

B 83% ~ 86% (581 ~ 608)

B- 80% ~ 82% (560 ~ 580)

C+ 77% ~ 79% (539 ~ 559)

C 73% ~ 76% (511 ~ 538)

C- 70% ~ 72% (490 ~ 510)

D+ 67% ~ 69% (469 ~ 489)

D 63% ~ 66% (441 ~ 468)

D- 60% ~ 62% (420 ~ 440)

E 419 and below

Course Policies

Communication - I will respond to emails and/or phone calls usually within 24 hours on weekdays, but this maybe longer on a weekend or with advance notice to students.

Posting of Assignments- Major assignments will be posted at least one week in advance of the assignmentdue date.

Feedback/grades- Students must be informed of their progress toward the final course grade at regularintervals. Assignments will be reviewed and evaluated by the instructor within one week after the postedassignment due date.

Late assignments- All assignments should be submitted at the designated time, unless pre-arranged with the


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instructor. The instructor is not responsible for any text or software that is not obtained in enough time tocomplete the assignments.

Due Dates: Please note that all assignment due dates on Tuesdays. Assignments must be submitted

by midnight Mountain time on scheduled due dates. For time zone information please visit the WorldClock Web site:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Point Deduction for Late Work: Ten points are deducted for each day an assignment is late. For

example, an assignment that is two days late will lose 20 points as a late penalty.

Technical Difficulties- on occasion, you may experience problems with accessing Moodle or class materialslocated within Moodle, with your Internet service, and/or other computer related problems. Do make theinstructor aware if a technical problem prevents you from completing coursework.

BroncoMail - http://helpdesk.boisestate.edu/email/broncomail/Moodle Assistance -http://edtech.mrooms.org

Academic Honesty-All students are required to abide by Boise State University's Student Code of Conduct on

academic dishonesty. Assignments completed must be your original work and cannot be used in other courses inthe EdTech program.

Reasonable Accommodations- Any student who feels s/he may need accommodations based on the impactof a disability should contact the instructor privately to discuss specific needs. It is advisable to contact theDisability Resource Center at 208-426-1583 located in the Administration Building, room 114 to meet with aspecialist and coordinate reasonable accommodations for any documented disability.

Boise State's FERPA policy - The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords students certainrights with respect to their education records.

http://registrar.boisestate.edu/catalogs/ugrdcurrent/frontpages/chapter2/confidentiality.shtml

Conceptual Framework

College of Education - The Professional Educator

Boise State University strives to develop knowledgeable educators who integrate complex roles and dispositions

in the service of diverse communities of learners. Believing that all children, adolescents, and adults can learn,educators dedicate themselves to supporting that learning. Using effective approaches that promote high levelsof student achievement, educators create environments that prepare learners to be citizens who contribute to acomplex world. Educators serve learners as reflective practitioners, scholars and artists, problem solvers, andpartners.

Department of Educational Technology Mission

The Department of Educational Technology supports the study and practice of facilitating and improving learningof a diverse population by creating, using, managing, and evaluating appropriate technological processes andresources. Believing technology is a tool that enhances and expands the educational environment, we promotethe use of current and emergent technologies for teaching and learning in a dynamic global society. Educationaltechnologists are leaders and innovators, serving in institutions of higher education, public or private school

settings, federal, state, or local educational agencies, and educational organizations in the private sector.

AECT Standards

AECT Standards-Standards listed with assessments tied to standards. Check with the Adjunct Coordinator whowill assist in aligning standards and assessments to course content.
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