The 7th Standard and EDU 590 both emphasize the use of technological tools, operations and concepts to enhance the learning experience, personal and professional productivity and communication among students. In EDU 590, our assignments are structured so that we will have to use the technological tools that are available (Blackboard, media, software applications, etc). The creation of a blog post enabled each student to become familiar with the concept of blogging as well as communicating with our peers and others to relay information in a forum outside of Blackboard’s discussion board (7g). This allowed the students of EDU 590 an outlet to express our views on various subjects and solicit the feedback of others (7b).
The research paper assigned requires that the students evaluate an educational technology plan, curriculum, website and software application which ensures the understanding of the various issues surrounding the use of technology in K-12 schools (7a).
Having to develop a technology based lesson plan and have it evaluated ensures that the students are aware of how to create and evaluate an online learning experience so that students would be able to achieve the same quality and level of education in a traditional environment (7c/7e).
To ensure that the students understood how to apply technology to assess and evaluate assignments, we were required to submit a 2,000 word essay (Plagiarism assignment) to “Safe Assign” for evaluation. The software application evaluated our work to determine if it was plagiarized or our own work (7f).
Incorporating a presentation allows each student the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge that was learned in class and present it to others utilizing many of the methods that may have been learned in EDU 590, if they had no prior knowledge.
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