Course Outline Information and Communication Technology in Science Education

Information and Communication Technology in Science Education

Course Code: EDUC-6511 Credit Hours: 3

Course Description:

This course will help you, the Student Teacher, understand, use, and apply a range of Information Communications Technologies (ICTs)—such as computers and the Internet, other audio and video equipment, mobile phones, and online resources and tools—as part of the teaching and learning process. During this course, you will collaborate with your peers to develop a learning activity that uses digital tools and resources to support student-centred learning. The focus of this course is to provide you with the knowledge and skills regarding how ICTs can be used to engage students in the learning process, improve understanding of content as well as instructional and assessment practices, and enhance communication and collaboration in the classroom. By ‘student’, we mean here children in primary or lower secondary grades. To attain this end, Student Teachers will design and create instructional units in which technology plays a central role and implement these units with students.

Learning Outcomes:

After completion of this course learners will enable learners to:

• Understand the meaning, concept and importance of ICT in education process.

• Know the meaning of learning and appreciate what is effective teaching and learning by using latest digital technology.

• Select, arrange and use appropriate methods/strategies and material for effective use of technology.

• Develop indigenous materials as instructional aids.

• explain why technologies are appropriate (and not appropriate) for certain types of learning (knowledge) •

• utilize a range of technologies (internet, radio, video, computer, online tools (blogs, wikis, online forums, and others) to create, plan, and deliver instruction (application)

• Provide a well-articulated perspective on ICTs in education informed by personal experience and critical examination of resources, curriculum, and educational practice (evaluation)

Outline

1. Introduction:

1.1. Meaning and definition of educational technology and ICT

1.2. Origin of educational technology/ICT

1.3. History of educational technology/ICT

1.4. Types of educational technology

1.5. Components of educational technology

1.6. Classification Of AV-aids

1.7. Merits and demerits of educational technology/ICT in the field of education

1.8 21^st Century Skills for Prospective Teachers

2. Types of Educational Technologies, Media and Their Uses in Learning Process Introduction: Basic concepts, Blog, Wikis, Online Forums, Tape-Recorder, Radio, Television and video, Educational telecasting, Videotext and electronic mail, Interactive video, Video and film, Projectors, types and uses, Computer, Internet and its technologies, Multimedia, Language laboratories, Models and modeling, Reprography, Board work: Bulletin and flallen boards, Use of locally available low cost material of educational technology, Media: Meaning and concept, Use of Mass Media in Education.

3. Current types of the educational technology systems and their application 3.1. Computer-based educational technology

3.2. Interactive video and multimedia stations

3.3. Virtual reality systems: Simulations & games

3.4. Teleconferencing

3.5. Personal digital assistants (PDAs)

3.6. Laboratory and workshop instructions

4. Planning and implementation for effective technology integration in 4.1. Teaching

4.2. Preparing / planning for technology integration

4.3. Obtaining the right material and personnel resources

4.4. Choosing the right software & hardware for yours needs

4.5. Training the teachers for using educational technology

4.6. Introduction to technology support tools

4.7. Using graphics tools

4.8. Using planning and organizing tools

4.9. Using tools to support specific content areas

4.10. Using interactive videodisc technology in teaching

4.11. Using hypermedia in teaching and learning

5. Integrating Technology into the Curriculum and Instruction 5.1. Introduction

5.2. Technology in science and mathematics instruction

5.3. Technology in social science instruction

5.4. Technology in language arts and foreign language instruction

5.5. Technology in music and art instruction

5.6. Technology in exceptional student education

5.7. Issues and trends related to technology use in instruction

5.8. Educational technology resources

6. Media and Teaching

6.1. Concept of teaching: Structure and features

6.2. Professionalism in teaching

6.3. Teaching as an art or science

6.4. Teaching competence

6.5. Factors affecting teaching competence

6.6. Effective teaching or effective teacher

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Jaipur: Mangal Deep Publications.

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Ashok Arora & Shefali Bansal (2002). Computer Fundamentals. Excel Books: New Delhi.

Murthy, C.S.V. (2010). Fundamentals of Computers. Himalya Publishing House: Mumbai.

Rajaraman, V. (2013). Fundamentals of Computers. PHI Learning Private Limited: New Delhi.

Saxena Sanjay (2000). A First Course in Computers. Vikas Publishing House PVT LTD:

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Web-based Recourses:

Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) - http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/journals/jrte-old.aspx

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE) - http://aace.org/pubs/jtate/ Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 2010. Framework for 21st Century Learning. http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?Itemid=120&id=254&option=com_conten t&task=view

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https://learningportal.iiep.unesco.org/en/improve-learning/curriculum-materials/appropriate-

educational-technologies

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