EDTC 804 Global Issues in Educational Technology Leadership
This course will investigate educational technology through a global perspective. The issues covered will include development strategies, diversity, cultural values, and the systemic role educational technology plays in global economic development. The course will focus on a cross-cultural examination of contemporary academic and workplace skills.
Paper 1.
Comparative Education
Choose one of the educational experiences in this unit’s readings and explain it through the scientific, pragmatic, and global dimensions that Arnove describes. Please cite your sources appropriately
Paper 2.
Five Paradigms
Describe how the Pearson Initiative described by Kamenetz (April, 2016) could be viewed in three of the five paradigms discussed by McCowan (2015):
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Liberal Capitalist
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Marxist
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Postcolonial
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Liberal Egalitarian
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Radical
Environmental Scan: Project (10%)
Choose one country from participants in PISA that has not been chosen by another student (each student will be able to choose in random order). Write a 250-350 word overview of the countries relationship to PISA. This should include its scores and standings as well its policies, reaction, and politics in response to PISA scores.
Curriculum Group Project
Curriculum Project: Describe the innovations of a specific segment of the Global Catalog of Educational Innovations. This segment could be based on geography, subject, grade level, etc, or a combination. You should have between 10-15 cases from the catalog (i.e. of the +/- 3000 entries) that represent your particular segment. You should analyze and summarize themes that run across several, most, or all of the cases. You should also highlight salient differences between and among the cases. YOU MAY USE EXAMPLES OUTSIDE OF THE CATALOG--THE CATALOG IS A STARTING POINT. ALSO, SOME OF THE LINKS DO NOT WORK OR HAVE CHANGED SINCE PUBLICATION.
