This course explores the theory and implementation of educational games, simulations, and interactive virtual environments for improved instructional engagement. In this course students will be encouraged to explore the theories of educational gaming, and the practical aspects of evaluating and implementing games, simulations, and virtual environments for teaching and learning. Learners will examine how educators can leverage students’ interests in digital culture to extend their learning and keep them engaged. Participants will explore the foundational, social and cultural implications of using this technology approach in a digital classroom. Students will conduct literature-based research to explore these topics and propose future implementations of gamification or simulations that have the purpose of promoting and sustaining student engagement. The goals of this course are:
- To appreciate the implications for the future of Caribbean education arising from the integration of technology in varied virtual teaching and learning environments
- To investigate where simulation and gamification can be employed in course contexts to increase student engagement
To give teachers an understanding of the role of emotion, feeling and imagination in response to literature; to help teachers appreciate the use of language in literature; to determine and practice techniques and strategies for getting learners to read literature and respond appropriately to it.
The objectives of the course are to:
- give teachers an understanding of the language situation in the West Indies, with special reference to their individual territory.
- give teachers an introductory understanding of the phonology, morphology and syntax of basilectal and mesolectal forms of language.
- give teachers an introductory understanding of the phonology and syntax of a syntax variety of English.
- develop in teachers the ability to observe contrasts between the language forms referred to in (ii) and (iii).
The aims of the course are to:
- help you understand the varied purposes for which language is used, and the conceptualizations offered for language as communication
- engender a critical stance in the examination and analysis of how language is used.
