The Design of Technology-Supported Learning Environments is an online seminar examining research and related exemplary participatory, networked media tools, as these inform the design of technology-mediated environments. We will explore constructivist and cultural theories of mind, education, and digital authoring and communication and their significance for the design of dynamic pedagogical environments that support 21C modes of making, sharing, literacies and learning. Students will author and share digital artifacts and collaboratively design a technology-supported learning environment.

ETEC 510 requires participants (a) to engage reflexively with academic literature concerning Digital Media, Pedagogical Spaces, and the Design of Spaces for Learning, as well as (b) to author various digital artifacts, including the production of a digital story, a stop-motion animation, and the production, as part of a collaborative group, of a technology-supported environment for learning. This course will support participants’ development of expertise, experience and comfort with the area of academic research concerning Digital Media, Pedagogical Spaces, and the Design of Spaces for Learning as well as with using digital authoring and interactive sharing and making of social media (e.g., blogs, wikis, iMovie).

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