SON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Spring Semester 2003 ?

EDUC 260 - 3 ?

Kevin O'Neill

Learning and Teaching through Technology

Office: EDB 8667

Phone: 604-291-3476

Thursdays 13:30-16:20

D01.00 ?

email: kevin_oneill@sfu.

PREREQUISITE:

Educ 220.

DESCRIPTION

-You will need to have internet access to complete many of the assignments in this course. Therefore, you

must have internet access at home or be on campus at least 2-3 times during the week.

-There will be some assignments that will require specific software applications available on computers in

the Faculty of Education's Centre for Educational Technology (CET). You will, therefore, need to schedule

some time to work in the CET outside of class time.

-An email list and conference will be maintained for course announcements and Q&A items. The list and

conference use only your SFU email account, thus you will need an active SFU email account and to check

your email and the conference throughout the week.

-All written submissions must be made through Turnitin.com

. Instructions on how to do this will be given in

class.

This course is designed to be interactive and hands-on. It will provide an exciting beginning experience for

those who desire to integrate technology into classroom teaching. The course is also meant to introduce you

to some of the social, cultural and instructional issues surrounding the use of technology in Education

through formal and informal discussions. The broad goal of the course is to empower pre-service and

in-service teachers to begin to use computer (primarily) technologies from a basis of comfort, interest and

meaning. As this is an introductory course, we will not achieve great depth, however it is expected that you

will leave this course with the confidence to pursue further learning on your own and some concrete ideas

about how to integrate technology into your teaching.

REQUIREMENTS

Class Attendance

Reading Responses (20%)

Assignments (60%)

Position Paper (20%)

REQUIRED READING

Tiene, D., & Ingram, A. (2001). Exploring current issues in educational technology. Boston: McGraw Hill.

Additional readings will be made available throughout the course.