TET 742 - MINDTOOLS

3credit hour(s)

Description This course presents Mindtools, which are inexpensive, commonly available and readily learned software programs that provide multiple methods for representing and building knowledge. This course helps students create technology-enhanced instruction which engages critical, creative, and complex thinking. Mindtools include semantic organization tools (databases, semantic networks), dynamic modeling tools (spreadsheets, expert systems, systems modeling tools, and microworlds), information interpretation tools and visualization tools, knowledge construction tools (multimedia production, hypermedia construction and linking, Web site production), and conversation tools (synchronous communication environments, asynchronous information tools, scaffold computer conferences).

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