Sixth Year in Instructional Technologies & Digital Media Literacy
UNH's new 6th Year Certificate in Instructional Technologies & Digital Media Literacy (IT&DML) is designed for licensed teachers in the state of CT who: understand that Twenty-first Century teachers must embrace and utilize the technological, cultural, and sociological changes that undergird a differently-connected society and want to advance in their careers but do not wish to leave active teaching at the P-12 level. The program is specifically designed to prepare these teachers with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to effectively and authentically embed instructional technologies into all content areas, for all students.
For more information contact Ian O'Byrne, Program Coordinator at wiobyrne@newhaven.edu
The program faculty and curriculum are intended to foster the development of professional, certified teachers who:
- Understand the definition and foundations of Instructional Technologies and their relationship to 21st Century teaching and learning in K-12 schools;
- Identify new media and technologies and be able to plan for their use in K-12 curriculum;
- Identify new and critical literacies, and employ both in their daily work;
- Locate, identify, and employ adaptive technologies for use in inclusive classrooms;
- Use distance learning to expand student and professional communities;
- Create and utilize participatory networks in their students’ and their own learning;
- Work with colleagues to develop their common understandings of global literacy;
- Locate their own roles in supporting and shaping students’ diverse literacy and technological practices;
- Analyze the shifting power relationships that accompany new technologies and literacies when used by students and by education professionals;
- Are confident and willing to use instructional technologies and new media literacies in their professional practices.
