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Contributing to the Technology Readings Forum Instructions: Students are required to select and read and respond to at least two readings from each of three topics: Part I: Legal, Ethical, and Diversity Issues; Part 2: Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning; and Part 3: Health and Safety Issues Each category contains one required reading. Once students have completed reading and reflecting on a given article, they must write a one-paragraph comment and/or reflection in response to the article. While it is not necessary to summarize the article, it is appropriate to cite or paraphrase statements made by an author to make clear your response. Students will write their reading response(s) first as a FrontPage document with a meaningful file name and then save/import that document into the webfolio. Next, students should log into the UD BlackBoard Learning system at http://blackboard.udallas.edu/webapps/login/ and copy/ paste their response(s) into the course Discussion Board named Technology Forum. Vygotsky-Style Teaching/Learning: It is very appropriate (and highly recommended) for students to engage in an exchange of ideas in the Forum beyond written responses to the readings. While I will not "require" you to post a given number of comments over and above the reading responses, I will expect students to respond to contributions submitted by others in the class. These comments and responses do not need to be included in the webfolio. It is sufficient for students to write such comments directly into the Technology Readings Forum where I can read them -- and in some cases respond to them. Students who are interested may wish to start a "thread" of their own to discuss other issues related to technology in teaching and learning. Creating a "discussion forum" for your own webfolio is a good possibility for your personally constructed interactive project in Module 8. With Front Page, it is quite easy -- so when the time comes, if you are interested, please consider creating such a forum for your own site. Good luck... Technology Readings
For those of you who wish to go "the extra mile"....I suggest the following books. Seymour Papert is the M.I.T. professor who invented LOGO, the child-friendly programming language. Some of you may have experienced LOGO - it's the language that involved writing programming instructions for a turtle. Much of Papert's work is rooted in the learning theories of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. Papert's books are available through Amazon.com. In addition, you may be able to find them at Half Price Books. Here are the links associated with the books from http://www.amazon.com
The work/writing of Dr. David Jonassen is widely respected and cited as fundamental to much of what is considered "cutting edge" in the field. He is the Distinguished Professor, Learning Technologies in School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. He has written extensively on computers as "mindtools," constructivism, and the design of learning environments. Some of his books are listed below. You may find a more complete list of his writings by going to his website or by doing a search on Amazon.com.
And, for those of you are intrigued by my personal fascination and interest in the work of Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist, take a look at a very brief biography at http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/v/y.htm . Vygotsky's work has had serious impact on my understanding of what it means to teach, what it means to "assess", and an understanding of computers as a "mediating" tool in the learning process. The books that started my interest in Vygotsky are listed below.
For those of you who prefer the feel of a book (with pictures!) when it comes to learning how to change fonts, insert graphics, create a web, build web pages, insert formulas into Excel spreadsheets, etc., here are a few books that may be helpful. Be mindful that I am recommending books that may not correlate with software versions that you have at home - in the case of older software versions, you might try looking for older-version books at Half Price Books. For those of you who have newer versions of the software, there should be new versions of the books listed.
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