TIE 512 Using Technologies to Support Student Thinking

This course examines and evaluates the role of learning technologies to foster student engagement and learning, and to inspire creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, and other higher order thinking skills. Candidates will review research on teaching problem solving with technology and conduct research to understand how this issue fits in their teaching and learning contexts. Candidates will critically review tools, frameworks, and approaches to learning problem solving, including problem-based learning, systems thinking, modeling, and complexity theory as these relate to bringing real-world problems into classroom in age-appropriate ways, and will build a mini-unit incorporating multiple approaches. Pre-requisite(s): LSE 500 or permission of TIE Program Director. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

Credits

3