| Course ID: | LLED 4490/6490. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | 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. |
| Oasis Title: | Digi Tools Social Media Eng Ed |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students will be able to:
1. Critically evaluate emerging technologies for instructional
uses, literacies they evoke (and, potentially, supplant),
openings for content exploration, etc.
2. Create multiple artifacts and exemplars for use in teaching
adolescent readers and writers.
3. Explore digital and other methods of producing evidence of
student understanding of the secondary English curriculum.
4. Negotiate assessment requirements within the current
standards based 21st-century classroom.
5. 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)
4. Multimodal Composition
5. Gaming and Literacy Learning
6. Information Literacy
7. Digital Reading Practices
8. Assessment of Readers and Writers |
| Honor Code Reference: | All students will be expected to follow the UGA Student Honor
Code, follow all relevant professional codes of ethics, and model
only the highest levels of professional honesty and integrity as
related to this course. |