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Design of Learning Environments (301-0-20)

Topic

AI, Equity, & Public Education

Instructors

Sepehr Vakil

Meeting Info

Annenberg Hall 345: Mon, Wed 9:30AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

Issues in designing and studying innovative learning environments, with a particular focus on affordances and constraints of new technologies. Explore the critical challenges as well as transformative potential of AI technologies in formal as well as informal learning spaces. Topics include AI, education and equity, computer-mediated communication, project-based learning, culture and identity. Theoretical motivations in cognitive and social-interaction learning theories, empirical studies evaluating their effectiveness, and prospects for propagation of such innovations. This is a project based course. In collaboration with our partners at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) and Family Matters, a youth organization in Rogers Park, you will design a technology-enhanced learning environment or experience anchored towards particular teaching and learning goals collectively decided with practitioners in the field.