EPSY 457

Course Description | Syllabus | Instructor | Sample Activities



Course Description
The focus of this course is on (1) the exploration of innovative technology uses in education, and (2) the critical evaluation of how these uses are (or are not) taken up in schools. This is a research and project-oriented course, and class members will conduct a variety of miniprojects exploring a range of new uses in classroom settings, respond to scholarly readings in the field of educational technology, and complete a major project for use in class members’ own teaching.
Syllabus

• Week 1: Personal and Educational Histories of Technology
• Week 2: Interactivity and Learning Communities
• Week 3: Teachers and Technology: Issues in Professional Development
• Week 4: From Consumption to Production & Evaluation

Instructor

Tony Hursh  Email:      hursh@illinois.edu

Doe-Hyung Kim  Email:   dkim12@illinois.edu

Sample Activities
EPSY 457 is a project-oriented course. In many cases, students choose a project that benefits their own teaching, and in some cases, students continue the same project across several CTER courses. The course is also research-oriented, and you will become familiar with research conversations in educational technology. The combination of these two features—research and projects—will result in students who are fluent in both the skills and discourses of technology for learning.