ASSETT Podcast Network
By STCs
ASSETT Podcast NetworkApr 29, 2022
Student Tech Share: Productivity
As end of semester deadlines approach, we want to get as much as we can out of our study time. How can technology help us "work smarter?"
Tune in to hear an excerpt from a conversation we had with students on the CU Boulder campus on this very topic. Sign up for an email reminder for our next conversation, or add to the conversation about "Connection" or "Productivity" technologies.
Transcript link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11IPqKd7PcanW1NZ23zt8H8-YV9uY2D_7PMeBPzpCl7M/edit?usp=sharing
[Re]defining Success (Four Tendencies): https://www.colorado.edu/assett/redefining-success
Hacking the Enneagram: https://www.colorado.edu/assett/hacking-enneagram
Student Tech Share: Connection
Discord…Hinge…Omegle? In a time when we’re forced to isolate, technology can provide us with opportunities to connect and form relationships. What makes apps are worth the download?
Tune in to hear an excerpt from a conversation we had with students on the CU Boulder campus on this very topic. Sign up for an email reminder for our next conversation (March 29th!), or add to the conversation about "Connection" or "Productivity" technologies.
Transcript link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aGd4WKpJCli97KKWlQeVHDPJUNZDXDco0QAk_DI9fmM/edit?usp=sharing
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Emerge: Developing Metacognitive Strategies for Student Success
In this podcast, members of the ASSETT Innovation Incubator discuss how metacognitive practices or “thinking about thinking” can increase student success. They share tested practices that are easy to implement in the classroom or for students to adopt independently or with a study partner.
Emerge: Reacting to the Past
Instructors Catherine Kunce, Michaele Ferguson, and David Paradis and students Olivia Bulik and Brenna Bythewood discuss their experiences with Reacting to the Past (RTTP), available at https://reacting.barnard.edu/, a series of immersive classroom role-playing games designed for use in higher education. Learn about the options for role-playing games in the classroom, the benefits it could have for your students, and the RTTP resources available for you though CU Boulder.
Provided by ASSETT's Innovation Incubator with assistance from the Student Technology Consultants. Voiceovers by Blair Young and Matara Hitchcock.
Overloaded: Conclusion
No one could have predicted that the world would face what it has faced this past year, and no one could begin to understand how this would affect our lives. Speaking with students, all with different majors, grades, and experiences, I sought to look at how they all adapted and adjusted their expectations with regard to school and technology. Everyone faced increased technology use, and though some of us tried to limit this, it wasn’t easy. As the semester wraps up, and we all prepare to return to a semi-normal life as a student, it seems that everyone will be ready to set aside the challenges of constant technology use, and begin living as we did before.
Overloaded: Episode 5
In the final edition of this podcast, I spoke with one more student about how their educational experience has been impacted this past year.
Overloaded: Episode 4
I spoke with a freshman student about how their habits changed when the pandemic began.
Overloaded: Episode 3
In this edition of the podcast, I spoke with a second year student about comparing their experience this year to their experience last year.
Overloaded: Episode 2
In this episode I spoke with two students, a freshman and a sophomore, about how their college experience is living up to their expectations.
Overloaded: Episode 1
This episode includes my conversation with a freshman majoring in international affairs.
Overloaded: Introduction
I never suspected over half my time at college in Boulder would be spent at a computer screen, and I am confident I was not alone in this supposition. Nevertheless, college students all around the world were snatched from classrooms and isolated from ‘normal’ thanks to the pandemic sweeping the globe. In this podcast, I’ll share conversations I’ve had with other college students. In these discussions it was my goal to learn not only about the effects of increased screen time, but also how student’s have managed them. Online schooling forces me to be on my laptop approximately ten hours a day, and when I’ve finished my online requirements, the last thing I want to do is look at my screen longer. However, instead of picking up any new hobbies like becoming a runner, pulling out my bike, walking for a coffee, I move from my chair to my bed and open netflix on my phone. I often read, and I enjoy puzzles, but the enjoyment of these activities does not detract from the joy of watching a movie with a friend after a long day with friends, online schooling does.
Emerge: Invigorate your Classroom with Non Disposable Assignments
In this podcast, members of the ASSETT Innovation Incubator discuss how to design renewable or nondisposable assignments that make the intellectual labor of students visible. A focus of their conversation is on Open Educational Resources (OERs), a foundation of nondisposable assignments. They also provide examples of nondisposable assignments currently being implemented in the classroom at CU Boulder.
Guests
Alexis Harris (interviewer) is a Junior at the University of Colorado Boulder. Majoring in English, Alexis is also pursuing her teaching licensure in secondary education, and is also in the Creative Technology Design program at the ATLAS Institute. Alexis is an undergraduate student intern for and member of CAMPP (Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing) an interdisciplinary team of the ASSETT Innovation Incubator. One of Alexis’s greatest passions in life is to learn as much as she can, making her a great addition to the innovation incubator and CAMPP!
Nicole (Nikki) Jobin is a senior instructor of history in the Stories and Society Residential Academic Program at CU Boulder. Nikki is a member of CAMPP (Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing) an interdisciplinary team of the ASSETT Innovation Incubator where she is advancing her work in developing Open Educational Resources (OERs) in partnership with her students. Nikki is a CU Boulder 2021 Open Educator Award winner!
Amanda McAndrew combines instructional design, ed tech, and faculty professional development in her role at CU-Boulder’s Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT) group. Amanda is the staff lead of CAMPP (Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing) an interdisciplinary team of the ASSETT Innovation Incubator. Amanda is also the project manager for ASSETT’s Domain of One’s Own instance, Buffscreate.net. Open education, OER, and critical digital pedagogy are central to her primary work interests and priorities.
Referenced:
How Much Paper Do Schools Use?
How Much Do Educators Print? — Infographic
About Creative Commons Licenses
Defining the “Open” in Open Content and Open Educational Resources
William + Flora Hewlett Foundation and Open Educational Resources
CAMPP (Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing
Additional Readings:
Ditching the “Disposable Assignment” in Favor of Open Pedagogy
Renewable assignments: Student work adding value to the world
Pedagogy Now: Productivity Tech Review
Student Technology Consultant Zhouming (MingMing) Sun reviews three productivity apps: Time Warp is a Google extension that lets you block distracting websites, Trello is a Kanban-style task manager, and Forest is a phone app (and browser extension) that incentivizes you to not use your phone while doing other tasks.
Introduction
What can I expect from Pedagogy Now? Overview by Matara Hitchcock, ASSETT's Manager of the Student Technology Consultants.