Educational Studies 250LT - Learning/Teaching in Dig. Age

This course focuses on the ways digital technologies are used to enhance learning, teaching, collaborating, and creating in educational settings and personal spaces. Students will have the opportunity to assess the effectiveness of a range of digital media designed to enhance learning, gain a foundation for empirical study of young people and their learning in school, build digital toolkits for self learning and/or teaching, and utilize their creativity to engage in a project that has meaning for them. Among the topics we will address include digital literacies, transformative learning, game-based learning, professional learning networks, and differentiating instruction with social media.