Like everyone when I first began to teach online, I mostly tried to mimic what I would do in the face to face classroom in a digital format. I discovered very quickly that this was not always effective and sometimes didn’t produce the outcome I desired.
It was about this time that I watched a TED talk by Richard Culatta, the current chief executive officer of the International Society for Technology in Education. A quote from his presentation resonated in my head and began to make me think about how I could use technology to “reimagining learning” versus simply “digitize learning”. In other words, how can I “use technology to do entirely new things that simply were entirely not possible before”?
This led me to look at how I could have students present the information to demonstrate their learning in a different way than in paper format. One of the platforms that helped me make this transition was a podcast creator called Anchor in combination with another platform called Cue Prompter. This allowed me to have students present their learning or “papers” via podcasts having them then submit reference lists or links to resources.
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