Course+Objectives+and+Standards

Students will gain the critical, creative and technical skills required for conceptualizing, developing, and managing the implementation of learning technologies and media within libraries and other informal learning environments.
 * Course Goal**

· Students will develop a working definition of media, technology and tool as a class. · Students will explore issues of power, access and control in educational environments, with special attention to libraries. · Students will investigate the ways in which technology changing the role of the library, as well as the role of librarians. · Students will engage with various learning technologies, think and write critically about these engagements. · Students will create original lesson plans that emphasize learning with technology in libraries. · Students will work collaboratively to create a unit of study with classmates that emphasizes both creation and instruction with learning technologies, tools and media.
 * Course Objectives:**

Content Core/NYS LMS CST #74 Frameworks 1. Demonstrate understanding of characteristics, uses, procedures regarding library resources 2. Demonstrate understanding of the principles of Information Literacy and teach these skills to children
 * This course addresses the following New York State Regents guidelines:**

(ii) Learning process, motivation, communication and classroom management and their applications. (iii) The nature of students within the full range of disabilities and special need (v) Curriculum development, instructional planning and multiple research-validated instructional strategies. (vi) Uses of technology, including instructional and assistive technology, in teaching and learning and skill in using technology. (vii) Formal and informal methods of assessing student learning and the means of analyzing one’s own teaching practice to change that practice. (ix) Means to update knowledge and skills in the subject(s) taught and in pedagogy, etc.
 * Pedagogical Core/Pedagogical knowledge, understanding and skills:**