Guest Post: Technology Workshops for Grad Students

Washington U’s workshops, with their focus on pedagogy first, are a nice model for teaching educators about incorporating technology in the classroom.

Guest Post By Bryn Lutes and Tanya Roth. Bryn and Tanya are instructors at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and have helped to evolve the offerings discussed here into the current series of workshops, focused on effective technology use in the classroom.

These days, most of us likely feel surrounded by technology: email, blogs, smartphones, Twitter, Facebook, text messaging, you name it. Sometimes, it can seem like we’re inundated with any number of new tools to help us work more productively, smarter, and better.

For those of us who teach, it can be even more of a challenge to navigate the many tools available to use in the classroom. But how do we, as educators, assess which tools and how many? Where do we draw the line between using technology for the sake of technology – and using technology effectively in the classroom?

How to use technology most effectively in the classroom is precisely what many grad students at Washington University in St. Louis have been doing ... [Read More]