Category: Connected Learning
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A Video History of Upstate New York II: The Seminar in Teaching Making, State University of New York at Buffalo Center for Media Study, December 1973
A Video History of Upstate New York II: The Seminar in Teaching Making, State University of New York at Buffalo Center for Media Study, December 1973 (This is the SECOND installment in a blog series on the Experimental Television Center exploring the community and institutional culture of experimental media education in an under-examined area of the […]
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Progressive Pedagogy: A Public Working Bibliography
Professor Cathy N. Davidson and Futures Initiative Graduate Fellow Christina Katopodis have been crowd-sourcing favorite books on pedagogy, active learning methods, structuring equality in the classroom, and giving students autonomy in discussion and agency in their own education to become better future leaders. We’ve asked our colleagues on the Academic Twitterverse for their favorite titles […]
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Doing History from the “Skies”
Doing History from the “Skies” (or: how I dropped medieval coins for Satellite images) When I was an undergraduate, one of the most dreaded requirements for history majors was the department’s Latin test. Like many of my friends, I avoided Latin in high school, and chose instead (mildly successfully) to learn French. Yet when […]
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Individual Learning Principles
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Podcasting and Pedagogy: Suggestions for Guiding Students as they Introduce Sensitive Issues
Faculty have expressed increasing interest in assigning podcasts in undergraduate courses because these exercises develop useful skills and engage technology-oriented youth. Podcasts help students develop skills, such as audio recording and editing, while crafting a product that they can build upon in their future academic and professional endeavors. For example, in interviews, students may reference […]
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LLG3 – The Holiday Hosting Module
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dBPvM-oSM8 The LLG 3 group presents a 12 minute module regarding a few, easy to make, holiday themed food and drinks. Happy Holidays and enjoy
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The Benefits of Technology in the Classroom
As someone who was born in 2000 and began attending school in 2005, I have witnessed many advancements in technologies such as laptops, tablets, and smart boards in classrooms. I vaguely remember any of my teachers ever using a chalkboard to teach a lesson. The use of technology in schools will only be increasing in […]
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Technology Makes the Classroom a Better Place
Technology has long been on the front lines of education. According to Laura Gray in “History of Technology in the Classroom,” in the 1950s, some “people thought televisions might eventually replace classroom teachers.” Source. Over time, technology has improved, leaning towards the idea that it is more beneficial to keep it around in the […]
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Why so Tentative With Technology?
In a 2000 study conducted by The Center for the Digital Future at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, only 67 percent of respondents declared themselves internet users. When the same study was conducted in 2016, 92 percent of respondents declared themselves internet users. Based on this study, it is […]
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Laptops, What is it Good For?
Austin Lee Writing Studies I Professor Savonick November 9th, 2018 Laptops, What is it Good For? The first computer was invented in the 1930s which were undeniably enormous. It would fill up the entire room and weighed about 50 tons. The first laptop, however, wasn’t invented till 1980. Nowadays we see the […]