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Online Graduate Courses
The University of Missouri offers an online
course through MUDirect
entitled,
LTC 8900 Seminar: Literacy and the Internet (Grades K-12)
This course can be taken without being part of a degree program. It can
also be taken as part of the Masters
of Education with a focus in Literacy.
Course Description:
This course focuses on examining ways the internet can be used in classrooms
to support students' literacy acquisition and development. You will explore
commercial web sites, teacher-made sites, and communicative sites (i.e., blogs,
zines, discussion boards). You will create your own web site to support
literacy instruction in your classroom.
To see when this course, and the courses below, are offered
go
to this schedule
Other online courses offered by MUDirect that focus on
Literacy in a Digital World are:
LTC 8900 Seminar: Curricular Decisions for
Literacy in a Digital World (Grades K-12)
Course Description:
This course will focus on making a match between educational technologies
that can be used to support literacy and your beliefs about literacy
instruction. We will examine aspects of literacy, instructional
approaches for literacy, various theoretical perspectives of literacy
acquisition and development, stances towards the integration of literacy
and technology, and types of educational technologies that can be used
to support literacy. You will examine various technologies and
identify what best matches your literacy instruction.
LTC 8900 Seminar: Nature of Literacy in a Digital World
(Grades K-12)
Course Description:
This course will focus on the evolving nature of literacy in our technology-based
society. We will examine the "new literacies" and discuss how
literacy is not only alphabetic but also semiotic, multimodal, and communicative. We
will discuss the implications of the changing nature of literacy on literacy
instruction and the integration of technology into your classroom.
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