ISKM57 Reading Seminar: Educational Technology and Learning Society

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0/2. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Michal Černý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Petr Škyřík, Ph.D.
Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alice Lukavská
Supplier department: Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
TYP_STUDIA(N)
Interest in the topic.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is to offer students the opportunity to read basic books and articles dealing with the topic of learning society or educational technologies. Themes and texts are chosen to have an interdisciplinary character - they are not purely EdTech themes but always relate to design, information science, data analysis ...
Learning outcomes
After completing the course:
The student will be able to read English articles and critically think about them.
The student will be able to write a short critical review in English. (This does not preclude the use of modern tools such as Google Translator, Grammarly, etc.)
The student will have an overview of topics from selected texts and will be able to critically reflect and evaluate them.
Syllabus
  • Learning analytics
  • Open education resource
  • Using big data, AI application in education
  • Critical approach to learning society, utopia and dystopia
  • Social Aspects of Education, Information Poverty, Information and Social Bubbles
Literature
    required literature
  • Candy, P. (2004). Linking thinking: Self-directed learning in the digital age.
  • Lai, F., Lehman, J. (Eds.) (2017) Learning and Knowledge Analytics in Open Education. Springer.
  • Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford.
  • Larusson, Johann Ari, White, Brandon (Eds.) (2014) Learning Analytics: From Research to Practice. Springer.
    recommended literature
  • Feenberg, A. (2012). Questioning technology. Routledge.
  • Feenberg, A. (2010). Between reason and experience: Essays in technology and modernity. Mit Press.
  • Winner, L. (1997). Technology today: Utopia or dystopia?. Social research, 989-1017.
  • Howcroft, D., & Fitzgerald, B. (1998). From Utopia to Dystopia: the twin faces of the Internet. In Information Systems: Current Issues and Future Changes, Proceedings of IFIP WG8 (Vol. 2, pp. 49-70).
Teaching methods
Students read independently (selected + selected literature) and lead a blog about reading. At the same time they give feedback to their classmates. This is a controlled online study.
Assessment methods
Students will receive texts that are crucial to the topic (on average three texts entered by the teacher and one chosen by the student)
The student has a blog where he writes in English about the literature he reads critically - not just about what it is, but also about what he was interested in, what was good and what was wrong, what it means for practice, society, research. ...
Student gives feedback or questions in the blog of other students
A brief discussion would be about what an interesting student has read and how it evaluates
The student who wants 4 credits (selected: k.) Will process all five themes. Student who has only 3 credits (selected: z) omitted one topic and his duty is to read only mandatory literature (he does not have to choose his own)
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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