ASSETT Podcast Network

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.

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.

In the final edition of this podcast, I spoke with one more student about how their educational experience has been impacted this past year.

I spoke with a freshman student about how their habits changed when the pandemic began.

In this edition of the podcast, I spoke with a second year student about comparing their experience this year to their experience last year.

In this episode I spoke with two students, a freshman and a sophomore, about how their college experience is living up to their expectations. 

This episode includes my conversation with a freshman majoring in international affairs. 

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.

What can I expect from Pedagogy Now? Overview by Matara Hitchcock, ASSETT's Manager of the Student Technology Consultants.