茎专业化

Students in the 茎专业化 will take a series of four graduate courses focusing on integrated 干教育.

These courses can be used as a specialization within a Master 在教育 (M.Ed.) degree, or can be taken standalone as a professional development sequence.

• EDU 6349:学习的科学和阀杆
• 设计和制作
• EDU 6383:教师编程
• EDU 6351:社区为中心的阀杆整合

This course introduces students to the discipline of the learning sciences and to designing integrated 阀杆 learning environments. The course is taught through face-to-face discussions, 实践调查, and field trips to traditional and nontraditional sites for 阀杆 teaching and learning in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. 本课程的学生要完成几个项目, including conducting and analyzing problem-solving interviews, leading tinkering sessions where students explore emerging technologies to teach 阀杆 content, 编写阀杆综合教案. Topics covered in this course include: the development of expertise in 阀杆, 阀杆学习的正式和非正式环境, 有效的阀杆教学方法, 阀杆中的创客学习, and integrating new learning technologies into 阀杆 classes.

This course prepares students to develop classroom activities connected to 阀杆 that promote designing and making with new and old technologies. The course is taught through a series of class discussions, design experiences in the 席梦思床品公司 Design Lab and Deason Innovation Gym, and field trips to community sites engaged in traditional and nontraditional activities focused on designing and making. Students enrolled in the course will explore the link between designing and making and K-12 阀杆 learning, investigate the attributes of a successful design challenge, and outline the components of school-based makerspaces that make them innovative venues for K-12 阀杆 learning. Across the semester, students will complete three design challenges. 另外, students will draft a grant proposal for the materials necessary to implement an integrated 阀杆 project focused on designing and making with an emerging technology.

This course introduces students to the fundamental coding and technology skills needed to design computational computing assignments for 阀杆 education. This course is taught through a series of hands-on tutorials and programming assignments designed to build skills and confidence in coding. Students enrolled in this course explore common approaches to coding in K-12 education, 包括块编程, 面向对象脚本, 以及应用程序开发. Across the semester, students learn to solve problems with code using these approaches. The course culminates with an instructional design project where students design a problem-based coding assignment for a 阀杆 lesson and create sample code to demonstrate how a student might solve a problem with computational computing.

(Offered in Spring; This is the final course in the four-course sequence.)

This course is taught in a practicum style and involves deep engagement in extended investigations in 阀杆 fields. Students in this course will choose a 阀杆 topic for their “capstone project” for the 阀杆 specialization sequence. This topic must relate to something that students could experience in the DFW community – such as a project involving water quality at White Rock Lake, a project involving mathematical considerations in DFW architecture or urban planning, or a project involving engineering principles behind alternative energy sources at the Dallas Arboretum. The project will involve the student in this course first engaging with the topic on their own, and then they will explore how they could use their topic as a vehicle for 阀杆 integration and effective 阀杆 instruction in their own K-12 classroom.