What I Do and How
Since the primary role I serve on campus is to enrich the work of faculty teaching, and in this context how I do that in regard to digital and new media, I thought it would be a nice start to link to a few blog posts I've authored relevant to new modes of teaching, asking big questions about teaching in general that can apply to uses of digital and new media, as well as specific discussion of how to align student demonstration of learning with authentic assessments. This is really a 30,000 ft view of approaches to teaching with digital and new media (amongst many other tools and pedagogies) that Jane and Kyle extend into more specific strategies and implementations.
Consumption and Production of Knowledge
Since the primary role I serve on campus is to enrich the work of faculty teaching, and in this context how I do that in regard to digital and new media, I thought it would be a nice start to link to a few blog posts I've authored relevant to new modes of teaching, asking big questions about teaching in general that can apply to uses of digital and new media, as well as specific discussion of how to align student demonstration of learning with authentic assessments. This is really a 30,000 ft view of approaches to teaching with digital and new media (amongst many other tools and pedagogies) that Jane and Kyle extend into more specific strategies and implementations.
Consumption and Production of Knowledge
In my view, one of the single biggest ways digital and new media can impact student learning is by destroying the convention that learning happens in the classroom, and that must be brought out into the world. Through advances in technology, the entire world can become a classroom, laboratory, place to experience, reflect, and share - a place of learning that does not have to necessarily differentiate what we do in school from what we do in the world outside of school. It's an issue of relevance. Relevant learning experiences produce relevant knowledge and practice (and theory). The more effectively we, as teachers, can leverage tools at our disposal to enable students to be consumers and producers of knowledge, the better an education can serve the individual and collective good.
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Some of my blog articles:
Summertime and the Livin's Easy, But Teaching is Not
You're Invited to a Celebration of Mistakes!
Don’t Knock It Til You Try It (Jumping Off A Bridge Is Always A Bad Idea, Though): Peer Observations to Improve Teaching
I Just Need a Little Time to Think
Check back regularly for more updates, resources, and information!
Some of my blog articles:
Summertime and the Livin's Easy, But Teaching is Not
You're Invited to a Celebration of Mistakes!
Don’t Knock It Til You Try It (Jumping Off A Bridge Is Always A Bad Idea, Though): Peer Observations to Improve Teaching
I Just Need a Little Time to Think