Innovating Instruction: Learning Design in the STEM Classroom

Explore the building blocks for designing technology-infused projects for all disciplines, including STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). This course will prepare you to design an authentic project you can implement in your classroom, while you learn more about project-based pedagogy and its growing popularity. Investigate how what we know about the learning sciences can improve your students’ educational experience. This course includes interviews with featured scholars and practitioners: Doctor Linda Curtis-Bey, Professor Chris Dede, Professor Renee Hobbs, Mr. Jay McTighe, Doctor Reshan Richards, and Professor Mia Zamora.

• How to use a design-based approach to integrating STEM into your classroom
• How to relate the learning sciences to classroom teaching with technology
• How to develop new formative assessment strategies with technology 
• The importance of establishing a personal learning network for lifelong learning 

• This course is designed for middle school teachers and administrators, preferably with certification.