Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is a major challenge to our educational system. This course is designed to use by student of the course, PreK-12 students, preservise and in service teachers. It provides a brief overview of key topics in the field of ICT in Education. You can access an analytic syllabus of the course (in Greek) at https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/ALEX03192/.

The typical first course in Introduction of ICT in Education has a strong focus on learning to use various pieces of hardware, software and connectivity. The course is balance between theory and practice.

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The prerequisite of the course is an introductory lever and skill in using Microsoft Office suite, using email and using Web. Nowadays the majority of students meet this prerequisite.

The course intends to increase knowledge and understanding of various roles of ICT in curriculum content, instruction, and assessment.  In addition, ICT is now an important content area in each of the disciplines that teacher involved or are preparing to teach. Special attention is paid to roles of ICT as an aid in solving simple problems and accomplishing ordinary tasks in all curriculum areas. The course also focuses on general topics such as ICT in curriculum, instruction, assessment, increasing problem-solving expertise of students, and in other aspects of a teacher’s professional work. As the course proceeds, students will come to understand that ICT in education is a broad, deep, and rapidly growing field of study.

The first part of the course is theoretical and refers to:

• Education policy at European and international level for the integration of ICT in the educational process
• The integration of ICT in education in the light of educational innovations
• Computer Hardware – New Developments
• Educational software
• Modern conceptions of learning in the pedagogical use of ICT
• Develop learning environments using ICT
• Pedagogical use of general computing applications and the Internet
• Design and implementation of Educational Activities with software and internet
• Computational learning environments
• Multimedia application in Aesthetic Education
• Distance Education

The second part is practice that lead to effective integration of ICT into curriculum content, instructional processes, assessment, and teacher’s overall professional learning and work. Students are καλούνται to design small projects using general-purpose ICT tools and upload them to eClass i.e. the LMS platform of the course, for evaluation. The projects are about:

• Activity with Excel program
• Create the presentation of a lecture
• Locating Educational Software from the Internet
• Design crosstab with HotPotatoes
• Design and upload Blog