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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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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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Is a 4-Year College Degree Still Necessary?

MindMax

I remember in 2012, when Rick Santorum called President Obama a “snob” for wanting “everybody to go to college.” Moreover, the rapid pace of change in technology means that learners may be better off dividing their investment in education over a period of years to keep up with the latest trends.

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HBCU’s Augment HyFlex Format Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Faculty Focus

The framework was developed in the United States by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), according to research in the field of neuroscience to enhance education. Fatma Elshobokshy is lead director, Center for the Advancement of Learning (CAL), as well as director of Learning Technology. Overton, R. Samayoa, A. Schwartz, J.

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With ChatGPT, we must teach students to be editors (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

” and “Where’s a 2012 Mini Cooper’s battery location?” Why not rely on help from technology? This means educators would do well to find a way not only to live with the technology but also to incorporate it into our pedagogies. Over time, I came to understand their resistance.

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Where Higher Ed Should Be More Businesslike

Inside Higher Ed

The defining down of the credential to meet what the technology was capable of was actually my deepest fear, having seen how the defining down of what makes for proficient writing into the five-paragraph essay destroyed writing instruction.). The labor structures of academia combine the worst of all worlds.

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Amid backlash, Stanford removes "harmful language" list

Inside Higher Ed

” The initiative, published by the university’s CIO Council and People of Color in Technology affinity group, sought to eliminate racist, violent and biased language in Stanford websites and code. I don’t think that it’s any secret that libraries, especially in academia, are not very diverse places.