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Foundations of the Learning Sciences

This course focuses on the social and cultural issues of learning as they relate to individual and group cognition in the context of media-rich technology learning environments. The course delves deeply into constructivism/constructionism, scaffolding, apprenticeship, distributed cognition, computer-supported collaborative learning, knowledge-building communities, the learning sciences, perspectivity and identity formation as they relate to the creation of successful and equitable learning environments for diverse populations of learners.

Course #
EDCT-GE 2175
Credits
3
Department
Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Professors

Camillia Matuk

Associate Professor & Program Director of Educational Communication and Technology

cmatuk@nyu.edu