September 2005
Course Number and Title
Educational Psychology EDPE 300 - Section 003 - (CRN2753)
Course Description
(3 credits)Selected theories, models, and concepts relevant to planning and reflecting upon educational practice and improvement. Overview of development, learning, thinking, motivation, individual difference, etc. In relation to applications in classroom teaching and learning, the complementary role of counsellors and psychologists, educational computing and technology. The Youth Protection Act.Associated Term: Fall 2005
Registration Dates: Mar 31, 2005 to Sep 13, 2005
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1. write from the same e-mail address to which you
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(514) 398-2832
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Telephone: (least preferred)
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(514) 398-5712
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Important URLs (Universal Resource Locators)
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Teaching Assistant
Dr. E. Sohbat
Text
Woolfolk, A., Winne, P.H., and Perry, N.E. (2006). Educational Psychology, 3rd Canadian Edition. Toronto: Pearson.
McGill
TodayIf you need to know if classes are still on due to weather, etc, please telephone (514) 398-1234This information will be updated as often as each hour in case of emergency. So will the McGill web site http://www.mcgill.ca/
Library
The computerized McGill Library card catalog is called MUSE. Access to MUSE is available from dedicated library terminals and from any full screen terminal on the McGill Campus or from your home computer by telephone through a modem or cable internet. Further information is available from the library or from your instructor.
Class
Section 3 of the class meets in room ED129 from 8:35 to 9:55, Tuesdays and Thursdays from Sept 1 - Sept 23 and from
Oct 10 - November 30th
Academic Integrity
McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore, all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information).
Assignments
Assignments will make up part of the required work in the course. These will be described in a series of separate handouts to be distributed later but in general they will involve participation in the communication activities and a written assignment. Late assignments will be penalized one full letter grade per day for each day late.
Attendance
Your attendance at all lectures is important and expected.
Auditing/Recording
Video and/or audio recording of lectures is not permitted. Auditors are not permitted by University regulation.
Exam
The final examination in this course will be based on both the lectures and the text and will be held during the formal examination period. The exam will be multiple-choice with no penalty for guessing.
Evaluation
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Final exam
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WARNING!
This course is web assisted. The computer will be used to communicate with other students, and the professor. It may be used to access course materials, to access discussion groups on educational psychology around the world, and to demonstrate SchoolNet. You do not need a computer to participate (use our computers), you do not need experience with computers to participate, and all you need to know will be provided in class by the instructor. However, students with a home computer and a modem will find some advantage in that they will be able to perform these functions at home. If you are computer phobic, here is your chance to learn about some important bibliographic tools and gain some skills which will help you in your other courses at McGill. If you have any concerns in this regard, please talk with the instructor who will be pleased to help you.
Computer Communication
Students can use their McGill po-box e-mail address (provided at McGill registration) which can be used to send messages to the instructor, to other students in the class, or to students on campus or elsewhere on the Internet. All necessary details will be provided by the instructor.
see World Wide Web below
Students in this course will see demonstrations of the World Wide Web in class, may attend class sessions on the World Wide Web (if they can be arranged), and are entitled to three (3) free sessions in the Third Floor Education Lab without purchasing a lab access card. Note that you can use the World Wide Web with your home computer and modem to access the course home page and/or any course documents that are posted there.
Course Website
The official website for this course is:http://www.education.mcgill.ca/profs/cartwright/edpe300/
Computer Communications Hardware/Software
You may use Netscape Communicator as well as Internet Explorer. The latest versions of these may be downloaded free of charge from the World Wide Web.
McGill
Home PageThe McGill Home Page is http://www.mcgill.ca/
You can also get there from your instructor's home page or the course home page. Here you will find information about the university, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and departmental as well as other information like room assignments and exam schedules.
CHANGEDETECT
- How can you tell when there is something new on this web page?
If you register this page (or any page) in a program called CHANGEDETECT, you will receive web page change notifications on your email, pager, ICQ or text messaging device. CHANGEDETECT will watch for changes and email you when something new appears. To access CHANGEDETECT, go to http://www.changedetect.com/
Printing Handouts (if required)
To print documents from the World Wide Web using your browser, just select PRINT in the FILE menu.
see Computer World Wide Web access above
Students are directed to sources on the World Wide Web (the fastest growing part of the Internet). WWW will be demonstrated in class and students will gain experience exploring relevant websites. Demonstrations of subject appropriate material on the World Wide Web will be given in class. Three free sessions to access to the World Wide Web may be had in the third floor computer lab, room ED328. Most course documents are be available on the Web. The World Wide Web, also known as W3 or WWW or "the Web" is a hypertext or hypermedia information retrieval project. Its purpose is to give universal access to a large number of documents on Internet-connected computers (called servers). These documents can range from simple text to sound, still graphics, and full motion video. Hypertext is text that contains links to other text. Hypertext refers to nonlinear text. Whereas you normally read left to right, top to bottom or beginning to end, in hypertext you follow links that take you to various different places in the document, or even to other related documents, without you having to scan through the entire text. The other documents may be stored on the same computer or on different computers anywhere in the world. The jump from place to place will usually be invisible to you. The Web was started at CERN, a high energy physics research centre in Switzerland. Many tools have been written and are still in production to allow access to hypermedia data. They include servers (computers) that act as information sources and clients (the program you use) that retrieve and display the information. WWW information clients can have different capabilities. Client software (e.g. Netscape Communicator and the Microsoft Internet Explorer can be downloaded free of charge from the Web. Users must have a terminal server (DAS) account (available free from the computing centre) if dialing in from home will require a fast modem (28k baud is the usual minimum speed).
August, 2005
Proposed Lecture Schedule EDPE-300