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EDCURRIC 720 - Teaching with Digital Pedagogies

Course description

30 points
A critical examination of the research and practice in using digital technologies to transform classroom pedagogy and enhance students' learning experiences. Building on prior knowledge and using the knowledge and skills developed in the course, students will identify a focus of their choosing to test concepts of usage, and evaluate new instructional designs for using digital technologies in classrooms.

Course director
Rena Heap
Course overview

Are you interested in effective integration of digital technologies into your classroom? Drawing widely on recent research, this course helps you address on-going changes in classroom practice such as increasing use of digital technologies, as well as moves to BYOD and 1 to 1 device schools. You will develop criticality in inquiry in action, reflexive meaning making and timely action required for effective, research-informed integration of digital technologies into your teaching practice.
Learning outcomes
At the completion of this course, it is intended that students will be able to:
- Critique relevant literature in a manner that enables digital enhancement issues to be fully debated.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the theory, research and practice of digital enhancement.
- Apply this critical understanding in order to evaluate and further develop their class site for digital enhancement.
Delivery modes

Block Intensive (intensive on campus days)
Currently scheduled classes

2018 Online/Blended (Semester 2): Block sessions on Wed 18 and Thu 19 July from 9am to 4pm two Saturdays on 18 August and 15 September from 9am to 1pm
Take this course

This course can be taken as a taught course in the following programmes:
School

Curriculum and Pedagogy