Educational Technology Masters Cohort

Fall 2011

cap Welcome to Cohort 4

Spring time. Everyone in EdTechMA should be enrolled in SED 600 and an elective. It is time to start thinking about our projects. Proposals are due at the end of the semester.

Upcoming conferences:

AERA Vancover - April 13
CUE Palm Spring - March 15
ISTE San Diego - June 24
MoodleMoot - Woodland Hills July 31 - August 3
AERA San Francisco - April 2013

There is always something new on the CSUN Teacher Resource Database

Spring 2012 Courses:

SED 600

SED 697

Fall 2011 Courses:

SED 619

SED 618

SED 514 Wednesday

SED 514 Friday
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The Cyberlearning Research Summit - Jan 17 logo

A one day event bringing some of the latest develoments (and developers) together with policy people. For more info see cyberlearning.sri.com

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Three technology/pedagogy projects won this year's McGraw Prizes

Bob Beichner - "flipped" style physics class for undergrads
Julie Young - self paced online school
Mitch Resnick - Scratch

child with touchscreen In 2001 Mark Prensky introduced the idea that the younger generation were "digital natives" because they have grown up (and learned to think) in a world filled with the web and handheld devices where us older types had to adapt to these tools later in life.

This has been a popular meme in ed tech discussion, but now some people are questioning how different kids really are. A new study claims to "Explode the Myth of Digital Natives"

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This site is the home for the CSUN Masters program in Educational Technology (Dept of Secondary Education).

To find out more about this program click on one of the links below:

Applications for Fall 2011 are complete. To get on the mailing list for information on the program fill out the Ed Technology MA interest survey.

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The plan for the Education Technology Cohort F11-Sp13.

Semester	Classes
Fall 2011	SED 618: Educational Multimedia SED 619: Educational Website Development
Spring 2012	SED 600: Research Methods for Ed Technology Elective
Fall 2012	SED 690: Special Topics in Ed Technology Elective
Spring 2013	SED 610: Seminar on Secondary Education SED 697: Preparation for the MA

In addition to these classes, students must either take two more classes or transfer classes from their credential program. This schedule is subject to change.

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Norman Herr: Webpage design; Applications of technology for science teaching

Mike Rivas: Teaching the nature of science; Research methods

Brian Foley: Open source technology in schools; Educational games

For more information on applying to the MA program in Educational Technology contact Brian Foley (brian.foley@csun.edu).