Ed Tech in Our Classrooms

As the world changes, the way in which we educate our students changes as well. Ever since the COVID Pandemic, we have seen major shifts in the ways that we are teaching our students as well as the ways in which our students are learning. During the pandemic, educators and students relied heavily on the use of technology and the internet world. We saw educators mastering google classrooms, canvas, and beyond that mastering websites such as Epic and more to help their students learn what they needed to/were missing out on being secluded to our homes for learning rather than the school environment. We not only began to teach concepts and curriculum differently, but we changed the ways in which we were assessing students on their learning as well. It has been and continues to be interesting to be in the field of education in our day and age. Watching the video on the idea that students can be assessed by using games sparked a bright lightbulb moment for me- as educators we are often looki...

 I did my talk to the faculty about ChatGPT but there were not a lot of people present. However, those who were there have already started sharing the presentation with others and I received an invitation to do something with it during a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) session this summer and to speak to a Medical Librarians association. Ripples in the water.

Thank you for accepting my professional absence this past week. I was part of a six-person team assessing the Education program at the University of Utah through an organization known as CAEP. We did this review virtually so that meant about 10 separate Zoom meetings a day late into the evening since they are on Mountain Time.  I think this work, for me, embraces the Learner Standard since I am always learning something new about how others run their programs. 

 Thank you to my Face-to-face students for making the pivot to a virtual class because of the threat of a storm. I heard from one student who noted that by 10 in the morning he could barely make it up the hill in his neighborhood. My view of class on Wednesday