Essential Background Reading

1. New Learning
2. Life in Schools

Post-Covid Thoughts

• After the COVID-19 Crisis: Why Higher Education May (and Perhaps Should) Never be the Same
• Schools after COVID-19: Seven Steps Towards a Learning Revolution

Comment: In what ways does technology mediated learning change both learning in person and learning at a distance? Discuss other participants' comments by mentioning them @name.

Make an Upate: Find an example of a learning technology which genuine makes a difference to the dynamics of learning. Describe it, and analyze the ways in which it makes a difference.

Essential Reading and Update

Following are some (mostly recent or upcoming) scholarly publications by Cope and Kalantzis. We'd like you to read some of them to get a broader sense of our thinking. Please join the New Learning community in CGScholar for updates as we publish new work!

• Learning and New Media: The Affordances of e-Learning
• Artificial Intelligence in the Long View: From Mechanical Intelligence to Cyber-social Systems
• Artificial Intelligence for Education: Knowledge and Its Assessment in AI-Enabled Learning Ecologies
• A Little History of e-Learning: Finding New Ways to Learn in the PLATO Computer Education System, 1959-1976
• The Cybernetics of Learning
• The Changing Dynamics of Online Education: Five Theses on the Future of Learning
• The Digital Learner: Towards a Reflexive Pedagogy

Make an Update (Essential): Read and review two of these articles. Please select articles you have not read or reviewed in another course.

Comment: Discuss one stand-out idea from Cris Mayo's presentation.

Make an Update: Raise an issue about technology and gender. Provide examples and discuss implications.

See also this article on the potentials of big data.

Comment: How might it be possible to overcome some of the limitations of legacy assessment systems?

Make an Update: Take one aspect of big data in education. How does it work? What are its effects?

Comment: What are the lessons educators can learn from games?

Make an Update: "Parse" an educational game or museum experience. How does it work to support the learning process.

Comment: In what ways can computer-mediated learning environments support more active learning?

Make an Update: Describe and analyze an example of social learning supported by ubiquitous learning devices.

Comment: What are the challenges and opportunities associated with learning computer coding?

Make an Update: Describe and evaluate a program, platform or pedagogy for increasing the understanding of how computing works.

Comment: How does the "logic" of assessment influence the logic of education?

Make an Update: Describe and evaluate an innovative assessment approach or technology.

This course includes peer-reviewed projects as a part of the course requirements. These projects must be fully completed for course credit.

To see details of these projects and the peer review rubric, refer to the Learning Design and Leadership Course Framework Learning Module from the CGScholar Bookstore. Refer to your course community and the course syllabus for specific timelines.