Yesterday was the first day of fall classes for UMass Boston distance students, and this semester I’m taking a course called Thinking, Learning, and Computers from the school of critical and creative thinking. Doesn’t that sound cool? It’s an elective, outside of my normal department, and I’ve wanted to a class from CRCRTH for a while now.
Having taken almost 2/3 of my coursework for my MEd, I’ve taken a lot of classes on learning design, but I’m hoping to approach things from a little different angle with this class. I’d like to get more basic in some senses… pay even more attention to what happens personally, cognitively, with the learner when using a computer as the teacher (or as an intermediary between a the learner and teacher).
I’ll probably post some musings here as the semester progresses…