| Instructor: Shelley Goldman |
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This course provides a studio-based, hands-on, and participatory approach to the development and research of technology tools and curriculum materials.
The course will introduce participatory design models for the development and research of educational materials through a studio-based, materials development project. The course integrates three emerging ideas into a studio experience where education students and technology students will pool their disparate, yet necessary and complementary knowledge and skill sets to work with a teacher to design, program, develop learning activities, field test and revise a curriculum sequence.
The course builds on three major ideas emerging from recent research on technology and learning. The first idea is that the use of domain-specific tools can make the difference in learning conceptual material. For example, in mathematics, tools can transform normally obscure ideas and concepts with multiple, vivid and linked representations and ways to engage in inquiry. The second idea is that even the best software is unlikely to engage learning or be used widely and/or effectively unless it is compatible with and linked to curriculum materials (such as teacher guides, student problems and activities, and assessments). The third idea emerging from recent research is that achieving an effective level of technology integration is virtually impossible without the direct involvement of developers and teachers with the design, development and research processes.
Completed projects will have the chance to be chosen as exemplars for similar courses in universities nationwide, or if they are in mathematics, for widespread publication through the Math Forum (the largest on-line community for math teachers).
Our Project: Measurement Meadow
We worked with an elementary teacher from Don Callejon Elementary in Santa Clara to develop an interactive storybook for 1st Graders to explore measurement using non-standard units and to help them realize why this can cause confusion.
This project is aligned with the corresponding NCTM K-2 Standard and California First Grade Standard.
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