EDUC 1302U – P/J Digital Literacies I (Language Arts and Digital Technology)

This course supports teacher candidates to understand multiple literacies both as producers and consumers. In addition, teacher candidates become more familiar with aspects of the Ontario curriculum: Language, including the expectation organizers: listening, speaking, writing, reading, media, and drama. This course examines how technology enables JK to grade 6 language learners to participate in formal and informal learning settings. Through this course teacher candidates also study how they, as learners, and the learners they teach can become self-directed, autonomous, co-creators of communications. This course employs a critical theory approach to examine children’s literature for social justice and other forms of inclusive curriculum.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 4
Note(s): Restricted to P/J Consecutive BEd students.