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**Welcome to Emerging Technologies for Educational Change (EDPE 640)!**

Course Overview:
Emerging technologies have the power to **sustain**, **transform**, and **disrupt** education.

Students will work with and explore emerging technologies that may have a large impact on teaching, learning, research and creative expression. EDPE 640 is a practical hands-on course grounded in constructivist learning theory.

Students will build a personal learning network (PLN) using Twitter and create a blog to post reflections and thoughts on themselves as learners, students, and teachers. These tools will also be used to reflect on:
 * systems thinking (cybernetics)
 * the 'big' ideas (in education and life:)
 * thinking about the 'thinking' (metacognition)

Required Texts:
Please purchase these books in the bookstore:


 *  Standing in the Gap: Empowering Teachers Through Connected Resources by Lisa Dabbs & Nicol Howard. Corwin Press (August, 2015).
 * Stratosphere by Michael Fullan (2012)

These texts are provided free of charge. They will be found in your MyCourses course page: > lished in D. Gitomer & C. Bell (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Teaching, 5th Edition (American Educational Research Association). New York, NY: Springer.
 * Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective edited by Chrystalla Mouza and Nancy Lavigne. (also found here: Springer Link
 * __Teaching and techno____logy: New tools for new times__***.** Fishman, B., & Dede, C. (in preparation). Will be pub

Here's the Fall 2015 Structured Overview



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Video Teasers & Trailers

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Watch several videos to <span class="wiki_link">you thinking about technology, learning, and teaching.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Interview with James Gee on Gaming Environments

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Course Framework
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">The following resources will be used to frame the course:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">New open source resources for Fall 2015 course:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teaching in a Digital Age by A. W. Bates
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teaching Crowds: Learning & Social Media by Jon Dron & Terry Anderson. ( book by chapter in PDF)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Resources from last year:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Stratosphere by Michael Fullan
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective edited by Chrystalla Mouza and Nancy Lavigne. (also found here: Springer Link)
 * __Teaching and technology: New tools for new times__*.** Fishman, B., & Dede, C. (in preparation). Will be published in D. Gitomer & C. Bell (Eds.), <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12pt;">Handbook of Research on Teaching, 5th Edition (American Educational Research Association). New York, NY: Springer.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Standing in the Gap: Empowering Teachers Through Connected Resources by Lisa Dabbs & Nicol Howard. Corwin Press (August, 2015).
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Who Owns the Learning by Allan November
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds by Julie Lindsay and Vicki A. Davis.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Digital Teaching Platforms edited by Chris Dede and John Richards.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Modelling with Technology: Mindtools for Conceptual Change by David H. Jonassen.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">The World is Open by Curtis Bonk (Mindmap)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">NMC Horizon Project by New Media Consortium. Latest reports 2015 on K-12 and Higher Ed editions (published summer 2015).


 * not yet published

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Course Website, Twitter #hashtag:

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Web Course Site: http://edpe640.wikispaces.com
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Twitter Hashtag: ​#edpe640
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Twitter Handbook for Educators ([[file:twitter-handbook-for-teachers.pdf]]).

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