2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ED 657 Diversity, Equity and Justice in Special Education
(3 credits)
This course is meant to support participants in exploring a range of ideas related to a connected learning framework of connected learning: an approach that sees learning as interest-driven, peer supported, and oriented toward powerful outcomes for youth. With a specific emphasis on thinking about issues of equity, this course is designed to part of current discussion in the field about how to support all youth in having connected learning experiences. This course then has been explicitly designed to be both to support a community of learning among participants as well as connect with a much larger community.
This course will explore a range of ideas related to a framework of twenty-first century design and learning principles called Connected Learning and support all participants in designing their own Connected Learning environment/opportunity for others based on these principles. Connected Learning is an approach that sees learning as interest-driven, peer supported, and oriented toward powerful outcomes for youth in today’s digitally connected society. It encourages a production-centered approach in digital and face-to-face openly networked environments. This course then, with a specific emphasis on equity, has been explicitly designed to support participants in exploring connected learning by engaging in a range of inquiry activities, particularly using connected technologies, in which learners engage in making, sharing and reflecting with professional colleagues in and beyond the class. And the course will culminate with personalized inquiry project that supports connecting learning in contexts and communities beyond the life of this course.
This course is open to classroom educators and non-classroom educators alike.
IMPORTANT: Students must have current background checks documents on file with the School of Education. (See Background Checks)
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