Powerful Ideas for Learning Sciences and Technology Design: Sociocultural Practices of the…

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This course examines select foundational ideas in the learning sciences and technology design field as situated in the learning and sociocultural practices, music, and history of the blues. Each week we dive into one foundational idea in the learning sciences and examine its manifestations in and illuminations from blues cultural history and music. These ideas collectively provide a network of concepts for conceptualizing cognitive, social and cultural processes of learning, and for designing and studying learning environments.