Lecture 3: Curriculum & Standards for Technology Flashcards
What is Curriculum?
Derived from the latin word “Curriculum” meaning a running, course, career.
also derived from the word “currere” meaning to run.
What is the definition of Curriculum?
A course; spec. a regular course of study of training, as at a school or university.
What are the two components of a Curriculum?
Scope and Sequence.
What is the “Scope” of a curriculum?
The breadth of what is taught or to be “covered”
What is the “Sequence” of a curriculum?
The order in which the subject matter is taught.
progression of events
What is the “what” and the “how” of an educational curriculum?
The Alberta provincial goverment determines “what” needs to be taught.
It is up to the professional to determine “how” it will be taught to the students.
What is PCK?
The understanding needed to teach particular subject matter, including an understanding of assessment, common misconceptions, and adapting instruction to diverse learners in specific subject matter.
How do Curriculum and Technology overlap?
Curricular Knowledge.
- Curriculum and its associated materials are the material of pedagogy, the pharmacopoeia from which the teacher draws those tools of teaching that present or exemplify particular content and remediation or evaluate the adequacy of student accomplishments.
What is a Curriculum as planned?
How a teacher desides how they will teach the curriculum
What is the Curriculum as lived?
The the curriculum is actually taught.
How are Curriculum’s a form of technology?
The curriculum is a Program of studies.
Technology is a way of _________ things - the processes, tools and techniques that alter human __________
doing
activity
learning is best done in _______
processes
What is the ICT curriculum?
A Curriculum within a Curriculum that is ment to be infused with each of the 4 major subject areas
- LA
- Math
- Science
- Social Studies
What dose the C stand for within ICT?
Communicating, inquiring, decision making and problem solving
What dose the F stand for within the ICT?
Foundation operations, knowledge and concepts
What dose P stand for within the ICT>
Processes for productivity.
What are the general outcomes of the ICT?
Identify what students are expected to know, be able to do and value upon completion of an exit level.
What are the specific outcomes of the ICT?
- Identify the component knowledge, skills and attitudes of general outcomes
- The ICT OS are “sub-outcomes- that are articulated across each of the 4 divisions
What is the general outcome of C5?
Students will use technology to aid in collaboration during inquiry
What is the general outcome of P3?
Students will communicate through multimedia
What is the general outcome of F2?
Students will understand the role of technologies as it applies to self, work, and society.
What are the strengths of the ICT PoS
- Integrated across all core subject areas, across all 4 divisions 9K-12) allows a student to have ICT learning every year
- It is relatively technologically agnostic (teachers can pick what technologies they wish to integrate)
What are the weaknesses of the ICT PoS?
- Lack of accountability at the grade level, in part because it is geared towards divisions rather than being grade sensitive.
- Some outcomes may never be addressed by the time a Student Graduates.
