Welcome to E-126Welcome to E-126

Instructor: Lisa BreitInstructor: Lisa Breitlbreit@post.harvard.edu

Phone: 617-733-9689Phone: 617-733-9689

Office Hours: By appointmentOffice Hours: By appointment

Class will meet at:Class will meet at:53 Church St., Room 20153 Church St., Room 201

Meeting Time: Thursday 5:30-7:30 pmMeeting Time: Thursday 5:30-7:30 pm

Lab Time: Thursdays 4:30-5:30 pmLab Time: Thursdays 4:30-5:30 pm

Instructor: Lisa BreitInstructor: Lisa Breitlbreit@post.harvard.edu

Phone: 617-733-9689Phone: 617-733-9689

Office Hours: By appointmentOffice Hours: By appointment

Class will meet at:Class will meet at:53 Church St., Room 20153 Church St., Room 201

Meeting Time: Thursday 5:30-7:30 pmMeeting Time: Thursday 5:30-7:30 pm

Lab Time: Thursdays 4:30-5:30 pmLab Time: Thursdays 4:30-5:30 pm

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Introductions Introductions

• Your name

• Why you are taking E-126

• One thing about you that might surprise people

• What you hope to get out of this course

• Your name

• Why you are taking E-126

• One thing about you that might surprise people

• What you hope to get out of this course

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Course GoalsCourse Goals

1. To understand the tensions, dilemmas and activities involved in designing curriculum that supports meaningful learning and high standards of achievement for all students.

1. To understand the tensions, dilemmas and activities involved in designing curriculum that supports meaningful learning and high standards of achievement for all students.

2. To appreciate how networked technologies can 2. To appreciate how networked technologies can support learning, collaboration, and reflection.support learning, collaboration, and reflection.

3. To understand how new technologies can enhance 3. To understand how new technologies can enhance instruction and support students' deep understandinginstruction and support students' deep understanding

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What will we learn about?What will we learn about?

• How do my personal and professional experiences shape my thinking and How do my personal and professional experiences shape my thinking and beliefs about teaching and learning?beliefs about teaching and learning?

• What does it mean to understand something? How is understanding different What does it mean to understand something? How is understanding different from skill or knowledge?from skill or knowledge?

• How can I design curriculum to address what is most important for students to How can I design curriculum to address what is most important for students to understand? understand?

• How can I design curriculum that meets the needs of students with diverse How can I design curriculum that meets the needs of students with diverse abilities, learning styles and backgrounds?abilities, learning styles and backgrounds?

• How can collaboration and reflection support my learning and that of my How can collaboration and reflection support my learning and that of my students?students?

• How can I leverage new instructional technologies to support deep How can I leverage new instructional technologies to support deep understanding and students’ agency as lifelong learners, and my own understanding and students’ agency as lifelong learners, and my own professional learning?professional learning?

• How can the Teaching for Understanding (TfU) framework help me design How can the Teaching for Understanding (TfU) framework help me design effective curriculum and orchestrate instruction for understanding using new effective curriculum and orchestrate instruction for understanding using new technologies?technologies?

• How do my personal and professional experiences shape my thinking and How do my personal and professional experiences shape my thinking and beliefs about teaching and learning?beliefs about teaching and learning?

• What does it mean to understand something? How is understanding different What does it mean to understand something? How is understanding different from skill or knowledge?from skill or knowledge?

• How can I design curriculum to address what is most important for students to How can I design curriculum to address what is most important for students to understand? understand?

• How can I design curriculum that meets the needs of students with diverse How can I design curriculum that meets the needs of students with diverse abilities, learning styles and backgrounds?abilities, learning styles and backgrounds?

• How can collaboration and reflection support my learning and that of my How can collaboration and reflection support my learning and that of my students?students?

• How can I leverage new instructional technologies to support deep How can I leverage new instructional technologies to support deep understanding and students’ agency as lifelong learners, and my own understanding and students’ agency as lifelong learners, and my own professional learning?professional learning?

• How can the Teaching for Understanding (TfU) framework help me design How can the Teaching for Understanding (TfU) framework help me design effective curriculum and orchestrate instruction for understanding using new effective curriculum and orchestrate instruction for understanding using new technologies?technologies?

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How will we learn?How will we learn?

ReadingsReadings

Discussions online and in classDiscussions online and in class

Weekly labs, cases and class exercisesWeekly labs, cases and class exercises

Course projectCourse project

Using technology for learningUsing technology for learning

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Texts Available at The CoopTexts Available at The Coop

Teaching for Understanding with Technology (TfU)

Teaching with Technology Designing Opportunities to Learn (Norton & Wiburg)

Modeling with Technology (formerly Computers as Mindtools for Schools) (Jonassen)

Teaching for Understanding with Technology (TfU)

Teaching with Technology Designing Opportunities to Learn (Norton & Wiburg)

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Other readings are accessible online or in PDF format on course web site

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Learning TechnologiesLearning Technologies

Course Web Sitehttp://my.extension.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k10514&login=yes

Course Web Sitehttp://my.extension.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k10514&login=yes

Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool (CCDT)http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ccdt

Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool (CCDT)http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ccdt

Multimedia Caseshttp://gseacademic.harvard.edu/~t527

Multimedia Caseshttp://gseacademic.harvard.edu/~t527

Instructional TechnologiesInstructional Technologies

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How will learning be assessed?How will learning be assessed?• Participation 15 pointsParticipation 15 points

Discussions in class and online, timely development and revision of Discussions in class and online, timely development and revision of curriculum design, peer consultation and feedbackcurriculum design, peer consultation and feedback

• Project 50 pointsProject 50 points Quality of the completed curriculum design incorporating new Quality of the completed curriculum design incorporating new technology for understandingtechnology for understanding

• Written Assignments 10 pointsWritten Assignments 10 points Online posts, memosOnline posts, memos

• Paper 15 pointsPaper 15 points Analytic paper with rationale for design based on readings and Analytic paper with rationale for design based on readings and reflection on own learningreflection on own learning

• Presentations 10 pointsPresentations 10 points Project presentation and demo of a learning technology Project presentation and demo of a learning technology

Total Points: Total Points: 100100

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This Week’s Understanding GoalsThis Week’s Understanding Goals

• UG1a. Understand the overarching goals for this course.

• UG1b. Understand the purpose, structure and requirements for this course.

• UG1c. Clarify your own learning goals and what you bring to this learning community.

• UG1d. Appreciate the meaning of “21st Century literacies” and how they affect learning and teaching today.

• UG1e. Become familiar with the course web site and its function in the course.

• UG1a. Understand the overarching goals for this course.

• UG1b. Understand the purpose, structure and requirements for this course.

• UG1c. Clarify your own learning goals and what you bring to this learning community.

• UG1d. Appreciate the meaning of “21st Century literacies” and how they affect learning and teaching today.

• UG1e. Become familiar with the course web site and its function in the course.

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Today’s ActivitiesToday’s Activities

UP1 Introductions all around

UP2: How do you know you understand something? (exercise)

UP3: Differentiating Skills, Content and Understanding (discussion) What is Understanding? What are 21st century literacies? How do understanding and 21st century ilteracies relate to each other? How can technology support learning of different kinds?

UP4: E-126 Logistics, Expectations & Requirements (review, Q&A) What we will do Requirements Course web sites & resources

UP1 Introductions all around

UP2: How do you know you understand something? (exercise)

UP3: Differentiating Skills, Content and Understanding (discussion) What is Understanding? What are 21st century literacies? How do understanding and 21st century ilteracies relate to each other? How can technology support learning of different kinds?

UP4: E-126 Logistics, Expectations & Requirements (review, Q&A) What we will do Requirements Course web sites & resources

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Exercise: How do you know?Exercise: How do you know?

1.1. Pair up with a partnerPair up with a partner

2.2. Each think of something you understand how to do well. Each think of something you understand how to do well. Teach your partner to do it or all about it.Teach your partner to do it or all about it.

3.3. SwitchSwitch

4.4. Note and discuss:Note and discuss:-As an expert, how do you know you understand something?-As an expert, how do you know you understand something?-As a teacher, how do you facilitate understanding?-As a teacher, how do you facilitate understanding?-As a learner, what do you notice about the way the teacher-As a learner, what do you notice about the way the teacherconveys his/her understanding?conveys his/her understanding?

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Discussion: What is Understanding?Discussion: What is Understanding?

What does Perkins say about how skills., knowledge, and understanding differ? What are some ways that understanding manifests?

What views of learning guide teaching for understanding?

How is teaching for understanding different fromor similar to other approaches to instruction?

How can new technologies support teaching for understanding?

What does Perkins say about how skills., knowledge, and understanding differ? What are some ways that understanding manifests?

What views of learning guide teaching for understanding?

How is teaching for understanding different fromor similar to other approaches to instruction?

How can new technologies support teaching for understanding?

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Factors in Use of Technology for LearningFactors in Use of Technology for Learning

What do McCormack and Scrimshaw say What do McCormack and Scrimshaw say about the potential of instructional about the potential of instructional technologies?technologies?

What factors do they think influence the What factors do they think influence the effectivenesseffectiveness of instructional technologies in of instructional technologies in schools?schools?

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Skills for the Digital Age

Skills for the Digital Age

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Learning with Technology ToolsLearning with Technology Tools

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Assignments for Next ClassAssignments for Next Class

1. Complete readings for next class

2. In the course discussion board, post one or two paragraphs introducing yourself in the course discussion thread called “Introductions.”

3. Review the syllabus and email instructor with any questions you have

4. Purchase texts for the course

5. Begin brainstorming ideas for your project. Post one or more ideas and possible partners in the course discussion thread called “Project Ideas”

1. Complete readings for next class

2. In the course discussion board, post one or two paragraphs introducing yourself in the course discussion thread called “Introductions.”

3. Review the syllabus and email instructor with any questions you have

4. Purchase texts for the course

5. Begin brainstorming ideas for your project. Post one or more ideas and possible partners in the course discussion thread called “Project Ideas”