Digital Tools and Social Media in Secondary English Education
LLED 4490/6490
3 hours
Digital Tools and Social Media in Secondary English Education
Course Description
Teaching secondary English using the ever-increasing range of
modes, media, literacies, and content available online. Critical
exploration of the instructional value of specific tasks and
tools, including hands-on work with participatory media.
Students will integrate multiple digital tools into their own
teaching and evaluate the impact of that integration.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Graduate students will be required to produce an analysis of
student work created using digital tools and/or social media,
putting outcomes into dialogue with findings from student
surveys and a detailed audit of technology tools (and resources)
available in the concurrent fall practicum placement context.
Athena Title
Digi Tools Social Media Eng Ed
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will be able to critically evaluate emerging technologies for instructional uses, literacies they evoke (and, potentially, supplant), and openings for content exploration.
Students will be able to create multiple artifacts and exemplars for use in teaching adolescent readers and writers.
Students will be able to explore digital and other methods of producing evidence of student understanding of the secondary English curriculum.
Students will be able to negotiate assessment requirements within the current standards-based, 21st-century classroom.
Students will be able to investigate, research, and analyze classroom practice and student learning for impact of digital technologies and social media on student learning.
Topical Outline
1. Digital Youth
2. Technology in Secondary English Classrooms
3. Tools vs. Literacy Practices (as competing focuses)
