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PÄS623 The Computer at School A 30.0 ECTS credits | |
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TIMEPERIOD: Q3, Q4, Q1, Q2 LANGUAGE:Swedish EXAMINER Erik Berg Univ adj PREREQUISITES Teacher training, nursery and infant teacher training or recreation instructor training. Priority admissions of those who are employed as compulsory school teachers, pre-school teachers or recreation instructors, since the course is based on continuos application on the participants' own school classes/groups of children. COURSE AIM The aims of the course are that the course participants acquire knowledge of: - Computers and society/the development of data technology - Interaction between people and computers - Computers and learning - Use of utility programs in teaching - Study and evaluation of educational software - Multimedia - Data transmission, Internet, the school computer network - Integration of computers into teaching The aims of the course are also that the course participants: - develop skills in using IT within either of the fields of multimedia, Internet/data communication and utility and/or learning programs - gain in-depth knowledge of methods for development work, planning, realization, evaluation and reporting - learn how to carry through and document investigations on IT and schools CONTENTS The course will focus on the computer as an educational tool and will have a practical, didactic approach. Other aspects of the course will be: - Learning, and in particular learning with the computer as a tool - Organizational and other consequences of the integration of computers into teaching - Computers and data transmission, school computer networks/Internet, multimedia, use of different types of soft and hard ware etc. - The course participants' own development work with the computer as an educational tool - Computer-based educational development work, report writing and concluding seminars - Instruction in educational methodology TEACHING Supervision and parts of the course will be carried through by means of computer conferencing. Course participants must have access to a PC or Macintosh with a modem, and will be supplied with clients to the computer conferencing program First Class. Participants should also have access to Internet. Teaching will take place at twelve different occasion in Luleå. EXAMINATION Evaluation of assignments during literature seminars and of report of the participant's individual work. Group work and seminars are compulsory. COURSE GRADE SCALE: Fail, Pass. ITEMS/CREDITS | |
| Research methodology/report | 10.50ECTS |
| The computer as an educational tool/seminar | 4.50ECTS |
| Computers and data transmission/literature seminar | 15.00ECTS |
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COURSE LITTERATURE MOMENT 1 Jedeskog, G (1996). Lärare vid datorn. Linköpings Universitet. Skolverket (1996). Multimedia i utbildning. Liber Teldok: Rapporterna 94,103 och 108 (Myter om IT, IT - några skolexempel från Mittnorrland resp. Lär vid din läst) Truedsson, L (1995). Nyckeln till Internet för skolan. Öhman, C (1994). Läraren, eleven, datorn. Liber. MOMENT 2 Litteratur väljs i samråd med undervisande lärare beroende på kursdeltagarens val av inriktning. MOMENT 3 Bell, J (1987). Introduktion till forskningsmetodik. Studentlitteratur. Jacobsen J K (1993). Intervju. Konsten att lyssna och fråga. Studentlitteratur. Kjær Jensen, M (1991). Kvalitativa metoder för samhälls- och veteendevetare. Studentlitteratur.
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