ED 307 Teaching strategies for the digital age
Course Description: This 3-hour course encourages questioning of previously conceived notions about the qualities and characteristics that make a good teachers and how to use those qualities to better and increase learner awareness regarding ever-changing student needs. Students will learn the unique characteristics of today’s digital-age students and 21st century pedagogical strategies used for instructing this population. Upon completion of the course, students will have the ability to locate, use and assess a variety of tech tools that are used for student inquiry and presentation of work and create and present content-based lessons that model explored teaching strategies. Field experience is not required. ED 305 Technology and Media, or an equivalent course, is prerequisite for taking ED 307.
Flipped classroom
Below is a video that I created using Xtranormal. The video discusses several characteristics of a flipped classroom and why they are becoming so popular. ENJOY!
inquiry based learning
I created a MindMeister Map to show the characteristics of an Inquiry based classroom.
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