First-Year Seminars 110DG - Learning in the Digital Age

This course focuses on the ways digital technologies are used to enhance learning in educational settings and personal spaces. Students will have the opportunity to gain a foundation for empirical study of young people and their learning in schools, assess the effectiveness of a range of mobile devices and apps to assist in the learning process, and create their own digital toolkits for learning. Some of the topics we will address include transformative learning, participatory culture, information fluency, digital citizenship, flipped classrooms, digital storytelling, personal learning networks, digital distraction, and the "googlization" of everything.

First-year students only, by placement.