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EdAd 5917: Educational Administration Technology Seminar

Dan Glisczinski, Assistant Professor, Department of Education


Syllabus

Core Competencies

Schedule

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Welcome to EdAd 5917: Education Administration Technology Seminar
1 Credit | Summer 2010 | Instructor: Dan Glisczinski

Class meets July 7 and 8 from 8 am to 3 p.m. in 239 Montague Hall

Class alias edad5917-1-su2010@d.umn.edu

This course is designed to demonstrate competency in the following core leadership competencies

  • B7: Understanding and using technology as a management tool
  • C5: Demonstrating the ability to adapt educational programming to the needs of diverse constituencies
  • F9: Understanding and utilizing appropriate communication technology
  • H5: Appropriately using learning technologies
  • I6: Demonstrating the ability to appropriately use technology to support instruction

The following topics will be included as part of this seminar

    1. Elements of a technology plan
    2. Legal and social concerns surrounding technology selection and use
    3. Integration of technology and instruction
    4. Information and visual literacy
    5. Libraries and media centers
    6. Electronic course delivery systems and consortia
    7. Monitoring student use
    8. Assistive technology
    9. Student information systems
    10. Technology needs assessments
    11. Data driven decision making
    12. Hands-on demonstrations of technology options
    13. Presentations of internship action research projects

The grading basis of this course is S/N or audit. Satisfactory participant performance will require equitable contributions to course activities and written reflective analysis of course topics. Because this course is offered over two days, absences may be grounds for unsatisfactory grades.

Required materials

  • Prensky, M. (2010). Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning. Thousand Oaks: Corwin.
  • Hess, F. (2009). The New Stupid. Education Leadership. 66(4),12-17.

Invitation toward differentiation and adaptation

I invite any of you who have any disability, either permanent or temporary, or any other special circumstances which might affect your ability to perform in this class to inform me so that together we can adapt methods, materials, or assignments as needed to provide equitable participation.

"Is technological progress taking you where you want to go?"
--David Orr, Earth In Mind