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Interactive Teaching Resources: Science, Technology and Society Africa in World PerspectiveAmerican Environmental HistoryExtension CoursesInformational SocietyInformation SuperhighwayInstructional MediaInternet for TeachersInterpreting CyberspaceInvention, Design and DiscoveryMicrocomputer Applications in AgricultureModels of Neural SystemsMultimedia on InternetThe Online ClassroomPhysical Science 2093(Astronomy)Science, Technology and Medicine in ChinaScience and Technology in SocietySociology of Cyberspace (UCLA)Text, Knowledge and Pedagogy in the Electronic AgeTechnology High Project at Pulaski High School Africa in WorldPerspective:This course is an introduction to Africa. While ourattention and work is centered on the continent of Africa, at every majorstep we will be moving outward to the larger African world andEurope/North America--hence the title "Africa in WorldPerspective". AmericanEnvironmental History: Just what is "American Environmental History"?Didn't we have enough to try to understand in our history without a wholenew discipline? This course will introduce students to this exciting andvital new field, beginning with pre-Invasion Indians andconcluding with an assessment of the American environment today. Throughreadings and discussions we will examine a variety of influential issuesand themes. Particular emphasis will be paid to politics (both domesticand foreign), gender, race, ethnicity and religion.ExtensionCourses: An on-line course offered by Extension Teaching at theUniversity of Missouri-Columbia is a regular University courseconducted entirely over the Internet. Although the class does follow thesemester calendar,students can participate from anywhere in the world, andthe classroom is open 24 hours a day, allowing students to participate inthe course at times convenient for them. On-line courses may becombined with traditional courses. If you are pursuing a degree, youshould contact your advisor to make certain the course will apply to yourdegree program. On-line courses require access to a computer, a modem,E-mail, and the Internet. The instructor facilitates peer interactionbetween those enrolled in the course, and students are required toactively participate in class discussions in an on-line environment.Informational Society (Economics 361N):Informational Sociey presents a utopiandesign of society in the year 2050 which promotes discovery, invention andinnovation. The design is based on the advances in information technologyand automation. The changes in economic organization and incomedistribution are forcasted. A fundamental concern of Informational Societyis information policy. The utopian design is based on promoting acommunity organization of society. The federal government is modified tocreate a stronger system of checks and balances. Governmental functionsare decentralized. InformationSuperhighway:This interdisciplinary seminar will provide an introduction to the Internet, its evolution and future promise, and explore a variety of policy, economic, technological, legal, and ethicalissues that arise from this new environment. Students will have practicalexperience locating information on the internet, learn how to set up apersonal information resource that can be accessed from all over theworld, and use the internet to find information relevant to discussions ofissues such as privacy, free speech, copyright, and charging policies.Faculty from Information Technology, Law, Computer Science, the Library,and other departments will participate. InstructionalMedia:Instructional Media is an entry level course designed tointroduce education majors to the underlying principles of instructionand how instruction can be facilitated using technology. Throughout thesemester, students will become acquainted with all aspects ofinstructional technology. Students will by necessity become proficientwith the computer as a teacher's tool as they use the computer for wordprocessing, data base management, spreadsheet development andcommunications. At the completion of the course, students will havefamiliarity with the tools found in the instructional technology field andbe able to integrate those technologies into their lesson plans.Internet for Teachers (EMC 598):Course Objectives: to be able to travel the Internet using Netscape and save location of every site you visit as a bookmark. to be be able to organize your bookmarks by using folders and save your bookmarks onto a floppy disk. to be able to use Netscape to download graphics and text. to be able to locate several educational sites on the Internet to be able to search the Internet using search engines. to be able to upload and download files using a file transfer program (Fetch on Mac or FTP for Windows) to be able to join a listserv and corespond with the members for the list. to be able to read and respond to messages on a newsgroup. to be able to create a homepage with graphics, text and links. to be able to identify common terms used on the Internet. to be able to identify new technology available on the Internet. InterpretingCyberspace: Cyberspace, E-world, the Infobahn, the Net. The metaphorslinking computers and what we do with them to the placeness of a virtualreality are increasingly hard to escape. Is cyberspace an inevitabledevelopment in the interaction of humans and computers? What will it looklike? How will it feel? In this course we will examine what happens to therelationship of subject, author, text and the world in this context ofcomputer mediation, in this "consensual hallucination" where informationbecomes architecture and words stand in for bodies. What are the largernarratives that work to shape collective perceptions of e-space? What ofthe blurring of author, reader and genre that virtual environments allow?What might it mean to inhabit an electronic form? In our explorations wewill look first at works of science fiction, following these with aconsideration of both theoretical and popular works as we begin to moveinto cyberspace ourselves. Our writing for the semester will be gearedtoward a final collaborative presentation, which we will make available onthe World Wide Web. Invention,Design, and Discovery: Overall, the course revolves around two activelearning modules that pose an invention or design problem students areasked to work together to solve. The first module, based on the inventionof the telephone, attempts to teach you how to invent. The second modulegives you a chance to apply what you have learned in the first module byinventing or designing a sustainable technology of your own choosing. MicrocomputerApplications in Agriculture: The purpose of this introductory-levelcourse is to acquaint students with the use of microcomputers inagriculture. The course is concerned primarily with the use ofIBM-compatible personal computers, the operatingsystem (DOS) and basic software applications. Applications covered includeWordPerfect (word processing) Lotus 1-2-3 (spreadsheet) and MPS(linear programming). The examples used to illustrate and teach thesepopular software applications are drawn fromproblems in agricultural enterprises.Modelsof Neural Systems:This course is an in-depth study of informationprocessing in real neural systems from a computer science perspective.We will examine several brain areas where processing is sufficientlywell understood that it can be discussed in terms of specificrepresentations and algorithms. We will focus primarily on computer modelsof these systems, after establishing the necessary anatomical,physiological, and psychophysical context. There will be some neurosciencetutorial lectures for those with no prior background in this area. Multimedia on theInternet: Communication 499, "Multimedia on the Internet," is designedto study and apply the tools of multimedia on the World WideWeb. Students will learn about the various types of multimediaapplications (e.g. Adobe Photoshop and Premiere) and howto construct effective interactive multimedia messages. The class willalso involve utilizing the Internet (email, newsgroups, ftp,gopher, the World Wide Web and other Internet applications) for classprojects and communication. Special emphasis will be placed on usingmultimedia in a world wide network delivery system (the World Wide Web).Students will learn how to use hypertext markup language to create theirown web pages as part of a final project. Although this is a class aboututilizing and creating online resources, the class meets regularly andgood attendance is a requirement. The Online Classroom (EducationL530): This course provides an introduction to the Internet and how itcan be used as an additional resource in K-12 classrooms. A survey ofseveral basic Internet navigation programs (Telnet, generic E-mail,Gopher, FTP/Fetch, Browsers) and their related searching capabilities are included. Students will create integrated units of instruction that usethe resources found on the Internet in combination with traditionalinformation resources used at schools and other places of learning. Issuessuch as Acceptable Use Policies and censorship will be discussed. Thecourse considers curricular and pedagogical issues important to selecting,gathering and developing curriculum which integrates the use of theInternet into effective instructional practices. It is expected thatstudents will have a very basic knowledge of e-mail in order to getstarted with the class.PhysicalScience 2093-Astronomy:Welcome to the computer age! This semesteryou�ll be assigned a digital term paper. You will have to write apaper on an astronomy related topic and illustrate it with images andother info collected from the Internet. More details about topics, format,and due date will follow shortly.Science, Technology and Medicine in China:Our aim in this course is tounderstand the thinking behind the science, technology, and medicine ofclassical and imperial China. To do this we must historicize Chineseinquiries into nature and into the human body. In other words, we willsituate interpretations of the cosmos, ways of exploiting the earth, anddisorders of the body in an historical framework that will helpus surmise what was distinct about Chinese society. The course isorganized along the lines of "Heaven, Earth, Human" (Tian, Di, Ren), alate classical theory of correlations that related human and naturalphenomena, and a concept that structured the mapping of sanctionedknowledge during the imperial era.Science and Technology inSociety:This course surveys the relationship between science andsociety and considers a number of current scientific and technologicalissues. Students who complete the course will understand the place of andrestraints on science, technology, and the scientific approach in modernlife. Sociology ofCyberspace(UCLA Dept. of Sociology): This course provides anintroduction to the social issues emerging in cyberspace. We will drawupon useful tools from interactionist sociology and studies of collectiveproperty relationships to study how people interact and work together tocreate powerful social networks. And since new powers bring new conflicts,we will examine the challenges and struggles that will define how networktechnology will be used in the next century.Text, Knowledge, andPedagogy in the Electronic Age: Questions: How do we situate new interactive technologies in the context of postmodernity: manifestation, convergence, catalyst, accelerator, realization? How are postmodern theories of the self and identity actualized and transformed by our experience in an increasingly proliferating cyberculture? Where are the continuities between the computing aesthetic of "simulation" (thinking of Sherry Turkle's term, "culture of simulation") and postmodern theories of simulation? Where, within electronic spaces, can we locate manifestations of the dialectic between modernity and postmodernity (either intellectual paradigms or aesthetics)? Technology High Project atPulaski High School: The mission of the Technology High project is toimprove the educational and economic lives of the people of Pulaski County. This mission is to be accomplished by a consortium of schools,businesses, government agencies, and other individuals through threetechnology-rich initiatives: a school-based initiative, a community-basedinitiative, and a professional development-based initiative. Through theseinitiatives, the project aims to revitalize the county's schools, make thecommunity into a learning community, and better prepare teachers toeducate.  |
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