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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

This course enables school professionals to learn and apply key principles of data literacy, including data discovery and location, evaluating data quality, collecting and organizing data, evaluating and interpreting data, presenting data to an audience in multimodal formats, and applying principles of data-driven decision making. Participants will learn how to use data to ask vital questions, think critically, and problem solve about issues that occur in school contexts. Evaluating data-driven decisions and using data-driven decisions to craft policy, as well as data literacy ethics, will be addressed. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s) None. 3 semester hours

This course continues the exploration of the role and applications of the learning sciences in designing powerful learning experiences and environments using digital technologies. Major topics include teaching, learning and assessment for deep learning using digital tools and learning environments. Candidates will apply theories of learning and socio-cultural influences, human-computer interaction and visual tools to foster critical thinking, creativity, skilled interpersonal communications and purposeful collaborations. Pre-requisite(s): LSE 500. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

In this course, candidates explore various types of educational inquiry methods and design-based research in formal and informal educational settings. Design-Based Research is an iterative process used to examine the processes and outcomes of teaching, learning and interventions and to inform theory and practice. Candidates collect and evaluate their own data to understand their instructional and/or professional practices on teaching and learning. Working collaboratively and/or independently on projects and assignments, candidates learn different approaches to research design, data collection and analysis. Candidates engage in a small scale site-based project, or its equivalent, to acquire practical skills of researching and evaluating educational phenomena. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

The purpose of this course is to help students develop a strong foundation in the Learning Sciences, specifically in relation to social-emotional, cognitive and the socio-cultural context of learning. Candidates will examine theory and research that have informed our understanding of individual learning and the effects of social context of learning. The course will primarily focus on the questions of how do people learn, how do culture and context affect learning, and what are the affordances and constraints on design for learning. For example, what are the effects of poverty on individual learning for the 21st century, and what are the influences on teaching and learning. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

This course provides a culminating experience for candidates in the Learning Science programs. Emphasis is on current trends and issues, seminal readings, and research findings related to the use of emerging technologies in education. Candidates are required to research and propose solutions to a problem of practice around the implementation of technologies within their own teaching and learning contexts. As part of this course, candidates are required to complete a minimum of 15 hours of field experiences. Pre-requisite(s): This course should be taken at the end of the degree sequence. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours