Course Overview
Technological advances, mobile computing, augmented reality, blogs, social networks, and other modes of connectivity, are producing new media well beyond conventional print and broadcast. People have increased access to information, and opportunities to express ideas, communicate, and to make sense of their worlds through these new media. In classrooms and informal learning environments, these new media are expanding and challenging notions of learning and literacy. The thread is distinctive in several ways: 1. Students examine contemporary research on learning technologies as well as the cognitive processes and social practices through which people produce, understand, and use information. They examine the application of technologies and new media to educational issues, by designing, assessing, applying, new media in formal and informal educational settings. 2. With the support and one-on-one mentorship of a faculty advisor, students design a plan of study to address their goals and interests. The plan includes a core of knowledge and skills, combined cross-disciplinary and elective courses in educational research, business and nonprofit management, social work and other fields. 3. Students practice their skills through a supervised, sustained internship experience in the university of local area, gaining knowledge and skills to develop, implement, and assess the impact of new media on learning and teaching.
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