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The focus of this course is understanding the role and application of the learning sciences in designing powerful learning experiences and environments using digital technologies. Major topics include teaching, learning and assessment in digitally-mediated learning environments including theories of learning and socio-cultural influences, human-computer interaction and visual tools for representing teaching and learning processes. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None 3 semester hours

This course explores strategies for creating and maintaining safe schools. Participants examine evidence-based research that addresses conditions that lead to safe and unsafe schools. Participants explore ways of assessing and monitoring school safety and preventing school violence, including but not limited to gender-based violence, bullying, aggression against school personnel, and school rampages. Participants learn how to mobilize student diversity, classroom pedagogy, strategies for student cognitive and social engagement, classroom management and community building, interdependent school organizational networks, familial support, peer-involved mediation activities, and restorative justice practices to create safe learning spaces for P-12 students. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours