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DML Practicum Connecting Theory to Practice
“An innovative class in which you will learn how to make learning with technology exciting for Middle-School students. Real students in real time with real digital technology. Real curriculum, real integration, real education. Cooperative planning with faculty, participating teachers, and fellow students. Individual responsibilities. Collegial debriefing”
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Teachers, like their students learn best by doing. In a word that's what Digital Media Practicum is all about! The brain child of DML instuctor Lisa Tortorich, DML Practicum was first conceived in 1999. "In most educational technology programs at the time, there were limited opportunities for students to develop real-world technology integration projects that truly prepared them to embark on a career as an educational technology leader," says Ms. Tortorich. "The intention of DML Practicum was to provide that real-world application and remind these graduate students that technology instructional design is only successful when it elevates learning to a new and more meaningful level." The idea was to create a situated learning environment where the teachers, the kids, and the technology all interacted together.
Thus, a dynamic partnership with Star of the Sea School in San Francisco was born in which middle school students and DML students alike would be exposed to technology rich learning environments, and where best teaching practices could be developed, modeled, and implemented. It has been a truly valuable and wonderfully symbiotic partnership.
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DML Practicum Classroom: middle school students & their coaches watching a Presentation
"DML Practicum has been one of the most valuable classes I have taken in the program! What we have accomplished this semester with our cohort of middle school students has been truly impressive. Watching our eighth graders use Flash animation to work out the mathematical relationships of the Fibonnaci sequence was an eye opener for me. It is clear that the hands on use of technology as a way to create context around the content plays a powerful role in student learning, and can help to create the ideal learner centered classroom...
...I thrived in this environment where collegial team planning and debriefing allowed us to generate and critique lessons that were not only hugely rewarding but ones that really worked ...."
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More about DML Practicum:
Course Description
DML Lesson: The Fibonnaci Sequence
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DML Student, Greg's Innovative Lesson
Click here to view the lesson in detail
When DML student, Greg Crum, decided that wanted to teach a poetry lesson in celebration of Black History Month, he designed a technology integrated lesson on the history Hip Hop and Rap that literally dazzled Star of the Sea eighth graders! Using a Quicktime video interview with a local musicologist who flatly debunked "rap" as a musical genre, Greg invited his students to first research rap music, and then to rebut vigorously the musicologist's contentions by e-mail. Along the way, students were treated to a tour de force of musical and Hip Hop sites, where they examined the elements of music, the "language" and vocabulary of Hip Hop, and the metric structure of poetry. Student teams generated their own rap poems, digitized them with computers, and then used Adobe Premiere video/audio editing software, to score their lyrics with back beats.and instrumental sounds. Click here to view in detail this creative and innovative lesson!
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