Course Syllabus
Section meets Thursday from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Ruffner 277A.

• EDLF 345 is a course specifically designed for pre-service education majors. The seconday humanities section challenges you to explore, within the context of your specific content area (English/Language Arts, Social Studies or Foreign Language), the authentic integration of various technologies into the K-12 classroom - as both instructional and productivity tools.
  
• A secondary aim of EDLF 345 is to allow you to develop your own ideas about the uses of technology. To this end, you will be experiencing activities that utilize technology and reading a number of articles about different uses of educational technology and reflecting on those readings.

The goal of EDLF 345 is to allow you to appropriately integrate technology into your instructional and organizational activities. Upon completion of the course, you should:

1. be aware of a number of different educational technologies;
2. feel comfortable using those technologies for educational and organizational purposes;
3. be able to critically evaluate the use of technology in the classroom;
4. be prepared to develop technology-enhanced instructional activities;
5. be prepared to support your students in meeting the Virginia Standards of Learning as related to both technology and content;
6. be aware of a variety of teaching strategies and learning theories which can be used when developing lesson plans;
7. feel more confident about your abilities to learn new technologies to which you have not yet been exposed; and
8. be able to discuss and defend your own philosophy of technology in education.

You must be in the Curry School to enroll in EDLF 345. You should have completed EDIS 288, which introduces fundamental word processing skills, the use of e-mail (including the ability to send attachments), use of the World Wide Web, and the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint. You should also be familiar with writing educational objectives and lesson plans. If you are not comfortable with any of these proficiencies, you will be at a disadvantage in the course.

Textbook

None; articles and other readings will be available via the course web site or on reserve in the education library.

To do well in EDLF 345, you should come prepared to all class sections and actively participate in them. You must complete your assignments fully and turn them in on time. Assignments turned in late (i.e., after the beginning of class on the due date) will be penalized one point per day late. Unless otherwise noted, all assignments must be completed individually. Each assignment should be pledged.

The grading structure of EDLF 345 is arranged according to a point structure. You earn points for each component or requirement of the class that you meet, and your final grade is determined by calculating the percentage of the total possible points that you have earned.

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Final grades will be calculated as a percentage of total points earned compared to total possible points. The scale below will determine the final letter grade.

A+ = 98 and up	B+ = 88-89	C+ = 78-79	D = 60-69
A = 94-97	B = 84-87	C = 74-77	F = below 60
A- = 90-93	B- = 80-83	C- = 70-73	a

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