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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Turn it off and on again: digital literacy in college students

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Surely, the kids who have grown up with technology are good at it, right? Those of us who work in universities, whether as faculty, staff, or otherwise, need to remember that students using technology for interaction and leisure doesn’t necessarily translate to familiarity with tools for academic or professional work.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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C2YC Past Award Recipients

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Bentley, Moraine Valley Community College 2008 – Sarah Evenson-Merranko, College of Southern Maryland 2007 – Not awarded 2006 – Kari Kahler, Northwestern Michigan College 2005 – Nancy W. Darrell Anthony Luzzo, Mt. Hood Community College; William E. Hitchings, St.

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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots 

Faculty Focus

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots 

Faculty Focus

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?

Faculty Focus

Martin is a former early childhood education lecturer at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, a former assistant professor of early childhood education, and a faculty professional development coordinator at Miles College. Excellence in university assessment: Learning from award-winning practice. Linways Technologies.