| This course will investigate the skills needed to
safely and successfully engage in an online world.
Students will research digital citizenship skills
designed to help learners appropriately
participate as online community members.
Participants will evaluate media and digital
literacy skills that help learners assess the
validity of information available online. The
course will investigate policies that keep people
and information safe. Students will also examine
ethical considerations of artificial intelligence,
including issues of bias, privacy, and equitable
access, to promote responsible and informed
decision-making in educational settings. Time will
be spent analyzing aspects of academic integrity
as well as ethical and professional behaviors
necessary for consuming and producing information
in a global society. Through Virtual Field
Experiences, candidates are exposed to various
online learning situations and school settings.
This course also serves as the capstone course,
which requires the candidate to demonstrate how
they have synthesized and applied the program
instruction in the real-world context. Prerequisite: EDU 842 or 847. 3 credits. |