Student Projects

Syllabus

Course Objective: To examine and consider the changing context of life and work in the information age and how it may impact what it means to be educated in the 21st Century.

September 11

Creativity

• Game Workshop Exhibit
• Sign up for class Blog
• Assign Reading/Blog Leaders
• Technology Standards
  • ISTE NETS*S - Technology Foundation Standards for Students
  • AALS Draft - 21st Century Library Learning Standards
• Powerpoint
• Creativity Exercises

September 18

21st Century Skills

• Reading
  • Learning for the 21st Century
    • Pages 1-25
  • enGauge
    • Framework and 21st Century Skills
• Reading/Blog Leaders: Jackie, Craig & Sherry
• Web Design Principles - PowerPoint
  • Web Design
  • Web Page Flow Chart Example
  • Web Page Components
  • Web Design Outline - Due October 2
• Resources
  • Teacher Resources
  • DU Portfolio
  • Web Site Tips
  • Web Pages That Suck
  • Top 10 Reasons to Create a Classroom Web Page
  • How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School
    • 1999 version
    • National Academy of Sciences
  • Alvin & Heidi Toffler
  • The Big 6
  • Center for Civic Education
  • International Education & Resource Network

September 25

Global Context

• Reading
  • The Bandwidth Capital of the World
  • China's Tech Generation Finds a New Chairman to Venerate
  • India Awakens
  • Map of Future Forces Affecting Education
  • America's Science Test: The Tough Road to Better Science Teaching - Handout
• Reading/Blog Leaders: Juli & Angel
• Project-Based Learning/Performance-Based Assessment
  • PowerPoint
  • Conceptual Framework of Project Development
• Resources
  • Global Context
    • Shift Happens Video - New Version - originally shared by Jackie Arriaga
    • Shift Happens Wiki
    • The Fischbowl
    • dangerously irrelevant
  • Project-Based Learning
    • Big 6
    • Buck Institute
    • Center for Civic Education
    • Center for Education in Law and Democracy
    • Center for Problem-Based Learning - Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
    • Community Adventure Program
    • Contextual Learning Resources
    • Cottonwood Institute
    • Criteria for Authentic Project-Based Learning
    • Edutopia
    • Instructables
    • Observing Classroom Processes in Project-Based Learning Using Multimedia
    • Project Approach in Early Childhood and Elementary Education
    • Project-Based Learning Checklists
    • Project-Based Learning Resources
    • Project-Based Learning with Multimedia
    • Project, Problem and Inquiry-Based Learning
    • A Review of Research on Project-Based Learning - March, 2000
    • Technology Supports for Project-Based Learning
  • Performance-Based Assessment
  • Assessment and Rubric Information - Kathy Schrock
  • Technology Rubric - Iowa State University
  • Technology Rubric - New Mexico State University
  • Digital Storytelling
    • PhotoStory - For Windows

October 2

Digital-Age Learners

• Reading
  • Soft skills in big demand
  • Preparing students for work in a computer-filled economy
  • Beyond Technology: The End of the Job and the beginning of Digital Work
  • Learning in the Digital Age
• Reading/Blog Leaders: Ilda, Harry & Michelle
• Web Site Design Document Due
• Design Conferences & Individual Page Design Lab
• Call UTS for Agora Username & Password for next week
  • 303-871-4700
• Resources
  • Learning Styles
  • Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic: Which is your Child?
  • Study Aids for Visual Learners
  • Visual Learning
  • Strategies for the Visual Spatial Learner
  • Characteristics of Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
  • Kinesthetic Learning
  • Kinesthetic Study Strategies
  • Student Permission to Publish Form
  • Parent Permission Form
  • Net Permission Form

October 9

Web Authoring

• Art for your web site
  • Guest Instructor - Carlos Lara
  • Program - Inkscape
• Reading
  • Support for Powerful Learning
• Reading/Blog Leaders: Elizabeth, Eric L & Tim
• Resources
  • FrontPage Outline
  • Posting your website to the DU Server
  • Web Space Quota Increase Form
• Lab

October 16

Web Design

FrontPage from 4 to 5

Dreamweaver from 5 to 6

• Resources
  • Color
    • Hex Hub Hexidecimal Color Codes
    • Web Monkey Color Codes
    • Interactive Color Chart
    • Patto's 216 Windows Colors
  • Posting your Web Page
    • UTS Web Work
    • Web Space Quota Increase Form

October 23

• Reading
  • How to teach with technology: keeping both teachers and students comfortable in an era of exponential change
  • Educational Blogging
  • Envisioning the next chapter for electronic books
  • Seven things you should know about wikis
• Reading/Blog Leaders: JoAnna, Theresa & Eric D
• Lab
• Resources
  • eBlogger
  • Educational Bloggers Network
  • weblogg-ed
  • eduBLOGnews
  • Peanut Butter wiki
  • wikispaces

October 30

21st Century Learning Organizations

• Reading
  • Framework for 21st century learning
  • Design for 21st century learning organizations
• Reading/Blog Leaders: Shu Ping, Su-Fen & Liz
• Lab
• Resources
  • ITEA Technology for All Americans Project
  • Brain-Based Learning and Research (includes web resources)
  • Brain Connection
  • International Alliance for Learning
  • Organizing Schools Using Brain Research
  • Resources on Brain-Based Learning and Teaching
  • Teaching Thinking - Robert Fisher
  • Brain Basics Convention

November 6

Colorado

• Reading
  • Public schools: Think transformation, not tinkering
  • Great Education Colorado Blog

Lab

November 13

Presentations

Course Assessments

• Lead Reading/Blog Discussion - 15%
• Class and Blog Participation - 15%
• Web Page Design Plan - 10%
• Reflection Paper - 30%
  • Please reference readings
  • 6-8 pages double-spaced
  • Due November 25 at 7pm via email
  • Given the changing context of life and work in the information technology age, please address the following questions with respect to your student population, your discipline/specialty/position, and your professional practice and objectives:
    • what might it mean to be educated in the 21st Century;
    • what factors should stakeholders plan for;
    • and what actions would you like to take to prepare?
• Web Page - 30%
  • Due November 13
  • Email me your url by7pm

Web Pages

Jacqueline

Sherry

Angel

Theresa

Eric D

Juli

Eric L

Su-Fen

Craig

JoAnna

Tim

Elizabeth

Liz

Michelle

Harry

Ilda

Shu Ping

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