H. Rose Trostle: Broadband Access, Indian Country, and Cyber Warriors
“Broadband access in Indian Country is not just a product of it often being rural and remote,” H.
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Through the Digital Looking Glass: Reflections on Toolset Hackathon So Far
Our tools not only shape what we do, they also shape what we think we can do. They bind our realities and our perceptions of what is possible. Everything from product marketing to comparisons with older tools to habits formed through their initial use shape our perceptions of the tools we use.
Module 3 of ShapingEDU’s free course, Connecting Learners for Work and Education: Universal Broadband Access in the US, is available now
We’re excited to share that Module 3: Identifying Barriers to Universal Access has now been published! This module is the third to be released for our free course: Connecting Learners for Work and Education: Universal Broadband Access in the United States.
In our most robust chapter to date, we explore currently identified challenges to Universal Access including:
Ozymandias - The Power of Creating Meaningful Artifacts
We tend to undervalue the value of our students’ creations and, as a result, so do they. Digital tech gives us unprecedented power to create. It also gives us power to preserve, duplicate and share artifacts of our learning journeys in ways that paper cannot. But with that bounty also comes challenges. We are flooded by the products of creation. When creation was scarce, it was valuable. When thousands of TikTok videos compete for the world’s attention, the danger lies in undervaluing the gems among them.
Broadband Access for Connecting Work & Learning: One Year Later
The whole world seemed to be shutting down in May 2020. The spread of the coronavirus during the first months of the year, combined with efforts to avoid face-to-face contact as much as possible, had pushed many of us even further online than we already had (willingly) gone—including in the field of teaching-training-learning.
Student Voices: Support is key
This anonymous story is part of a series of informal interviews with online students in various stages of their academic journey.
Question: What are the biggest challenges that you have faced (or are facing) as an online student?
Answer: Loneliness. Not having face to face interactions to work through this college process. Lack of motivation when I sometimes feel like it's just me.
The Power of the Moment: Building Communities of Thought
Time is our only truly non-fungible asset. Deficits of money can be made up but deficits of time are impossible to recover. As teachers, we struggle with this every class. We understand that time spent with students is absolutely precious. It can never be made up once the clock at the end of a term runs out. It is difficult recoup even within the context of a single class session. Time is a truly scarce resource.
Humans are More Complex Than Light: Iterating a Tool for Understanding Tools
The Teaching Toolset Project will reframe how we view the tools we use as teachers. As I argue in my forthcoming book, Discovering Digital Humanity, all too often we become prisoners of our tools instead of their masters. We create technological monstrosities with the idea that somehow this will make our students learn better. There is no question that digital tools open up vast new possibilities for learning but they also hold within them traps for the unwary.
Student Voices: Time + Internet
by Anita Roselle
These two anonymous conversations are part of an informal interview series with online students in various stages of their academic journey.
Both students discuss the need to focus and prioritize their time. Trouble with internet capabilities was also an issue for both of these students. Read on to learn more.
Question: What are the biggest challenges that you have faced (or are facing) as an online student?
Lost in the Maze: Motivating the Student Voice
I have always dreamed of having critical, curious, motivated students trying to understand the world around them. I was that kind of student, but I have come to realize that I am all too often the exception to the rule, as are most faculty.