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Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar

Bryan Alexander

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. It’s a master’s degree course for Georgetown University’s excellent Learning, Design, and Technology program. The topic is education and technology. These seminars are mostly discussion based. Additionally, each student will teach the rest of us one tech.

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Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Bryan Alexander For my course on Studies in Educational Technology, I wanted to bring all of that in as objects of study—as well as discuss practical decisions for our collective learning experience.

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

Edsurge

When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees.

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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

Edsurge

No one knows yet what the next semester will bring, but there’s a good chance the spaces where you used to teach, whether cavernous lecture hall or cozy seminar room, won’t be available this fall. Palloff and Keith Pratt (book), provides case studies about building community in online environments. Is your course mobile-phone friendly?

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In Coastal Alaska, 2 Visions for the Future of Higher Education

Edsurge

For James Singewald, a typical week goes something like this: Learn about the history of boarding schools in an Indigenous Studies class. Students who study on campus tend to come for career and tech courses, learning about, for example, welding, or scientific diving, or aquaculture. The students are really great.

Education 126
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How the pandemic accelerated the need for interactive learning spaces

Neo LMS

Consequently, even if they are studying at home, they don’t really feel alone, as connectedness is the key to better learning — a lesson learned from many years of experience both as a teacher and as an e-learning entrepreneur working with hundreds of educators. One of these skills is facilitating an interactive learning environment.

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8 Ways in which edtech supports Vocational Education

Neo LMS

Finland offers free of charge vocational education for all students and even state grants to help them finish their studies. . Instead of attending face-to-face seminars, they can do this at their own pace and receive reminders to complete them on time. . Having this in mind, in the U.S., Mixing different instructional methods.

EdTech 351