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Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar

Bryan Alexander

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. These seminars are mostly discussion based. As the seminar progresses, they will use technologies they study to create these reflections. Open access definitions: SPARC and OSI. OpenStax, “Why we champion perpetual access, free of charge” [link] . ACRL Standards.

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AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them?

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Accessible Educational Support AI writing tools make high-quality writing help available to more students, regardless of geography or income. AI technologies are available online, frequently for free, giving all students access to sophisticated writing help.

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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. Various aspects of social justice also arose, including inequalities of access to digital educational content and accessibility/disability issues.

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Grad Seminar on EdTech Part 2: How Can Digital Audio Enhance Teaching and Learning?

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Though tools to do that are getting more accessible than ever. (I Over the next two months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. This is part 2. Read part 1 here.

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The Humanities May Be Declining at Universities — But They’re Thriving on Zoom

Edsurge

It sounds at first like an ambitious book club—except for the fact that many of these seminars are organized and led by college professors, some so eager to participate that they do it for free. Although some of their seminars are intended as what Hitz calls a “friendly supplement” to college curricula, others are more openly antagonistic.

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

Edsurge

However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I had hoped the seminar would address the tendency to ignore the impact of Indigenous practices in teaching; instead, it was just another example of appropriation.

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Annual All-Access Passes for "The Safe Library" Webinar Series & Recordings by Dr. Steve Albrecht

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We also have an annual "All-Access" Program for Organizations wanting to give their staff unlimited viewing of our 65+ existing Dr. Albrecht recordings, as well as the ability to attend or watch the recording of each new webinar by him during the year and to receive certificates of attendance. A bio for Dr Albrecht and testimonials are below.