68014 - Educational Technology Laboratory (E)

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary teacher education (cod. 8540)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students:

- knows how to use digital technologies to search, evaluate, storage, produce, present and share informations and  moreover collaborate and participate in online communities.
- knows how to evaluate and choose educational technologies and tools for the classroom and for the documentation of the learning process
-knows how to empower learning, thinking and creativity with digital technologies. 

 

Course contents

This course is designed to be a learning environment where to discover digital technologies for kindergarten and primary school.

Students will be invited to explore and discover programming as a learning activity and problem solving processes that can be enhanced by programming activities.

In this course we will discover how to program with Scratch (a block-based programming environment), how to code without a computer and some educational robots. 

Teaching methods

The course will use Google Classroom as virtual environment where to share ideas, homework and reflections.

Assessment methods

At the end of the learning path student will be invited to work in peers to design a learning activity for a an entire class or asmall group or a student with learning impairment that involve one of the technologies presented during the course.

This Laboratory does not have grade, but "idoneità" (pass/fail evaluation) and 3 ECTS.
3 ECTS: 24 hours in presence (8 hours for each ECTS) and 51 hours of individual study (each ECTS is 25 hours).

To get the "Idoneità" (final evaluation) students must attend all 24 hours (with active participation) and provide all assignments request.

Office hours

See the website of Angela Sofia Lombardo