Module Code: | PM9203 | ECTS Credits: | 5 |
Overview
This module enables students to use digital technologies for effective planning, teaching, learning, assessment and critical reflection. It integrates a wide range of creative technologies for classroom use, and develops the pedagogical understanding behind their integration into practice. On successful completion of this module, students will be able to interpret and critically analyse theoretical frameworks underlying the use of technology for teaching and learning. Constructivism, constructionism, behaviourism, user generated content, peer learning, digital learning objects, pedagogies for educational content online, 21st century learning skills, and other concepts are explored and understood. Students create their own digital learning objects, having researched and evaluated appropriate technological and pedagogical interventions for their intended audience/class/age/group, evaluating emergent technologies and analysing their application to education. Opportunities are provided for meaningful reflection on current practice in Irish primary schools.
Each lecture has a practical element, whereby students create the digital learning object associated with that lecture. For example, students will be asked to create their own podcast, publish it to the web, and allow other course members access to it. The course culminates in a practical end-of-year project, where students are asked to design and create digital tools to enhance the teaching of a topic of their choice. Students can choose the topic and the class group for whom the content is designed. They are then assessed based on the submission of the digital tools, and a written critical reflection piece following completion of the task.