Internet in K-12 Instruction

Course Description

This course focuses on how educators can leverage the Internet as a tool to simultaneously support curriculum standards and the goal of helping students become impactful digital citizens. Students will have a chance to explore strategies, tools and concepts that enable digital citizenship to become an integral part of any curriculum. The course is primarily designed for K-12 educators and teacher educators, but educators from all contexts will benefit from thinking about how they can integrate digital citizenship in their curriculum. Students will have an opportunity to use a variety of Internet-based tools, engage in online community and develop plans for applying content learned to their own unique professional contexts.

Course Learning Goals

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Critically analyze popular digital citizenship curriculum resources.
2. Identify and use a variety of Internet-based tools to support teaching, learning and digital citizenship.
3. Plan ways the Internet can be used to enable students to make contributions that matter while meeting curriculum standards.
4. Recognize and develop ways to support effective online discourse.
5. Identify networking resources to support professional learning.
6. Recognize and develop ways to support online information literacy.
7. Participate in an online community via discussions, peer review and other forms of communication.
8. Use a variety of Internet-based tools that support teaching and learning.