Engelska Studiehandboken kurser

Dept. of Education and Teaching Methods

PÄS612 The Computer at School A 15.0 ECTS credits

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TIMEPERIOD: Q3, Q4

LANGUAGE: Swedish

EXAMINER
Anders Söderlund Univ adj

PREREQUISITES
University Certificate in Pre-School, Leisure or Compulsory School Teacher Education.

COURSE AIM
The students should have knowledge of: -The computer in the society/The development of computer engineering. -Interaction between man and computer. -Computers and learning. -The use of standard programmes in teaching. -Examination and evaluation of pedagogical software. -Multimedia in computer. -Computer communication, Internet, school data network. -Intergration of the computer in the teaching. -To work with planning, carrying-through, evaluation and work with development.

CONTENTS
The course is orientated towards the use of the computer as a pedagogical tool and has a practical didactic orientation. The learning and especially the learning with computer as a tool are dealt with. Organizational and other consequences of the integration of the computer in the teaching are discussed. Computer and computer communications, school data network/Internet, multimedia, the use of different typs of soft and hard ware are discussed. The students«work with the development of their activity with the computer as a pedagogical tool is an important part of the coures.

TEACHING
Supervision and some part of the course are carried out with help of the computer conference. The students should have access to PC or Macintosh with modem and will be equiped with clients to the computer conference programme First Class. The students should work out a memo about their view of the computer as a pedagogical tool. In-depth study, through their own work. should be documented, evaluated and reported. Literature seminars and group work. Two seminars are part of the course: one about computer communication, where Internet and school data network as a pedagogical resourse are dealt with, the other about the students working with multimedia. The teaching will take place at 10 meetings in Luleå alternative at local study district.

EXAMINATION
The students willbe graded on their memo, the obligatory assignments to literature seminars as well as on the report of their own work. Obligatory participation at group work and seminars.
COURSE GRADE SCALE: Fail, Pass.

ITEMS/CREDITS


Memo, literature seminars, report                           	15.0ECTS

COURSE LITTERATURE
Andersson, A. (1992). Multimedia, en introduktion. Almqvist & Wiksell. Riis, U. (1991). Skolan och datorn. Tema-T Rapport 24, Tema teknik och social förändring, Universitetet i Linköping. Collste, G. (1993). Etik i datasamhället. Carlssons. Lindh, J. (1993). Datorstödd undervisning i skolan. Studentlitteratur. \hman, C. (1994). Läraren, eleven, datorn. Liber. Ytterligare ca 500 sidor ur böcker och/eller tidskrifter ingår.

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