Learning Processes and Instructional Design with Digital Technologies

COURSE CONTENT

1. Learning Theories with Digital Technologies
   • The concept of added pedagogical value and innovation
   • Mapping learning theories with digital technologies: conditioned responses, unveiling scientific insights, memorization and response to questions, and meaning-making
   • Personalized learning and collective learning
   • Learning through exploration, expression, and hands-on activities
   • Learning and refutability
   • Learning and hands-on activities: production, adaptation, dialogue, and argumentation
   • Meaning-making of key concepts and awareness of complex issues
   • Aspects of the learning process uniquely activated by digital expression tools
   • Computational thinking and programming
2. Theoretical Frameworks for the Learning Process with Expressive Tools
   • The U.D.G.S. model, Theory of Instrumental Genesis, Gradual Scientific Literacy, Semiotic Mediation
3. Design of Expressive Tools and Structures
   • The concept of transparency and black and white box design
   • The concept of microworlds and examples of microworlds
   • The concept of micro-experiments
   • The concept of scenarios – activity plans
4. The Concept of Structure Design for Teachers and Students
   • Secondary development within the framework of computational thinking
   • Learning through design
   • Design models and their adaptation for pedagogical value
   • The educator as a designer of materials and digital structures
   • Teacher’s knowledge, beliefs, and practice in the role of a designer