EDN4424

Learning technologies: databases and multimedia

Dr G I Romeo

8 points(6 points for BEd students) - 3 hours per week - Second semester - Peninsula - Prerequisites: EDN3325 or EDN4422 or EDP2101 or equivalent

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to identify and discuss the major legal, ethical and cultural issues currently impacting on educational computing; have developed an advanced understanding of how the computer and its applications can be used in the primary classroom as a catalyst for the development of children's thinking; have further developed advanced understandings and user skills necessary for the effective use of the computer; possess an advanced understanding of the concepts underlying flexible and inflexible databases, multimedia, communications and adventure game software and the rationale underpinning their use in the classroom; and have further developed a range of advanced procedures and practices for the effective use of the computer as a teaching and learning aid.

Synopsis This subject is designed to provide students with an opportunity to examine recent developments in the use of computer technology in the classroom, to develop the student's personal computer literacy and awareness, and to advance the student's awareness of the pedagogical issues surrounding learning technologies. Students will explore a range of issues and practices in, and attitudes towards, learning technologies as well as developing advanced skill in the use of databases, multimedia, communications and adventure game software. The subject will include reference to ongoing research in the field and students will be expected to complete a research essay, practical work and an examination.

Assessment Folio of practical work (1500 words; 1000 words for BEd students): 20% - Research essay (2500 words; 2000 words for BEd students): 30% - Examination: 50%

Recommended texts

Coil C Tools for teaching and learning in the integrated classroom Hawker Brownlow, 1996
Merrill P F and others Computers in education 3rd edn, Allyn and Bacon, 1996
Sharp V Computer education for teachers 2nd edn, Brown and Benchmark, 1996
Simonson M and Thompson A Educational computing foundations 3rd edn, Macmillan, 1997

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