ECE 7760 - Create to Learn

3 Credit Hours
Description
This course troubles normative conceptions of creation, innovation, and learning. Using constructionist, sociocultural, and culturally-responsive theories of learning, the course deepens educators’ understandings of design thinking, pedagogical imagination, project-based learning, tinkering, play, and making in a variety of learning spaces (e.g., classrooms, museums, outdoors). The course offers opportunities for students to engage in critical discourse, collaboratively build projects, and practice designing and/or facilitating opportunities for young people to learn through creating. Some questions undergirding the course are: What is learning and how can we see it in everyday interactions (with young people, adults, etc.)? What counts as making? How are educators makers/creators?.