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The System-Tool Paradox - Part I - The Perils of Letting Systems and Tools Dictate Practice
All too often we let our systems dictate the tools that we have to facilitate learning in our students. If our goal is individualized, learner-centric instruction, then tools driven by systemic logic will often fail to meet the needs of the learners we are trying to serve. Those tools all too often tend to be driven by the logic of the systems that created them. Tools and systems become self-reinforcing loops and the result is practice that is driven by tools and systems instead of its effectiveness in reaching the learner.
Developing + Telling the Stories of Broadband Access
Broadband access is a painfully timely challenge for anyone trying to work and learn in online environments; yesterday's highly-interactive ShapingEDU session will focused on finding ways to positively address that challenge.
Student Voices: Samantha, NYC
by Anita Roselle
This conversation is the first in a series of informal interviews with online students in various stages of their academic journey.
The student we are talking to today is a Sophomore at Arizona State University and is taking her classes 100% online. This interview took place in March 2021 between Innovator in Residence Anita Roselle and Samantha from New York City, and was conducted entirely on Snapchat.
Telling Broadband-Access Stories with Jessica Rosenworcel
Stories are at the heart of the developing relationship between Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and members of the Arizon
Gina Millsap: Broadband Avenger
Conversation with Jessica Rosenworcel, Acting Chairwoman, Federal Communications Commission
This month, the Connecting for Work and Learning project team was honored to welcome Jessica Rosenworcel, Acting Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to our project team meeting on March 2nd. Rosenworcel identified sharing stories as one of the ways that we can make a difference in advocating for universal broadband access.
Innovator in Residence Nancy Rubin uses AI to shed light on the student debt crisis
The Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Student Debt Crisis project, led by Innovator in Residence Nancy Rubin, convened data scientists, data engineers and domain experts from around the world, using the Omdena platform, to collaborate and build an artificial intelligence solution to better understand -- and potentially recommend solutions to -- the student debt crisis.
Going Small: Lessons from Remote Instruction
One of the underappreciated side effects of the Covid pandemic has been to make everything small. Over the last year I have become much more focused on the individual stories of my students as I try to shepherd them through classes, often under very difficult circumstances. My students have lost relatives, become sick themselves, and had to deal with a host of technical issues related to remote instruction.
Beth Holland: Barriers, Challenges, and Empathy in Fostering Broadband Access (Part 2 of 2)
What we do with universal broadband-access is clearly as important as the efforts we are making, though the ShapingEDU“Connecting for Work and Learning”