Social discussion of CS in K-12

["Wolske, Martin B" <mwolske AT illinois.edu>]

I'm very excited to share that my new course proposal, "Informal Learning Spaces and Pedagogies", LIS490IL, has been approved and has been scheduled for fall, 2015. We'll meet Wednesdays 1-3:50 in room 341 of the LIS Building. The course description is as follows:

> This course will explore the design of space and pedagogy for informal learning in libraries, museums, and other public and private collaborative spaces. We will investigate together a variety
>  of informal learning spaces such as information and learning commons, learning labs, and Makerspaces to understand the impact environment has on learning, and will review key literature concerning informal learning pedagogy and critical sociotechnical perspectives
>  on technology and society. We will also consider qualitative and quantitative evaluation strategies for measuring output and impact of design of space and programming for informal learning in libraries, museums, and other public venues.

The draft syllabus for the course is now posted to my blog at:

> https://mwolske.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/new-class-informal-learning-spaces-and-pedagogies/

An article that came out in this month's Journal for Education in Library and Information Science authored by Kyungwon Koh and June Abbas describes a range of "Competencies for Information Professionals in Learning Labs and Makerspaces." I think this new class
 will be a strong complement to my other fall class, LIS451, "Introduction to Network Systems" (Tuesday mornings 9-11:50), to help foster many of these competencies. 

Please feel encouraged to not only sign up for the class yourself, but also to distribute this announcement widely with anyone you think may have interest in the class. The class is open to all graduate students and upper-level undergraduates in or out of GSLIS.

Thanks!

— Martin

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Martin Wolske, Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Faculty

Graduate School of Library & Information Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

337 LIS Building, 501 East Daniel Street

Champaign, IL  61820

217-244-8094 (office) 217-244-3302 (fax) 217-840-7434 (cell)

Google Hangout: martin.wolske; Twitter: @MartinBWolske; Blog: http://mwolske.wordpress.com

I'm very excited to share that my new course proposal, "Informal Learning Spaces and Pedagogies", LIS490IL, has been approved and has been scheduled for fall, 2015. We'll meet Wednesdays 1-3:50 in room 341 of the LIS Building. The course description is as follows:

This course will explore the design of space and pedagogy for informal learning in libraries, museums, and other public and private collaborative spaces. We will investigate together a variety of informal learning spaces such as information and learning commons, learning labs, and Makerspaces to understand the impact environment has on learning, and will review key literature concerning informal learning pedagogy and critical sociotechnical perspectives on technology and society. We will also consider qualitative and quantitative evaluation strategies for measuring output and impact of design of space and programming for informal learning in libraries, museums, and other public venues.

The draft syllabus for the course is now posted to my blog at:

https://mwolske.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/new-class-informal-learning-spaces-and-pedagogies/

An article that came out in this month's Journal for Education in Library and Information Science authored by Kyungwon Koh and June Abbas describes a range of "Competencies for Information Professionals in Learning Labs and Makerspaces." I think this new class will be a strong complement to LIS451, "Introduction to Network Systems" (which I'll be teaching in the fall Tuesday mornings 9-11:50), to help foster many of these competencies. 

Please feel encouraged to not only sign up for the class yourself, but also to distribute this announcement widely with anyone in or out of GSLIS you think may have interest in the class.

Thanks!

-- Martin