Technology as a pathway to engagement pedagogy

I attended an AAC&U (Association of American Colleges and Universities) conference in June 2007 and had the opportunity, along with the team I was traveling with, to be coached by Dr. Dee Fink. Fink has authored numerous books about student learning experiences, evaluation and assessment of faculty teaching, and team based learning. Fink’s primary focus at the AAC&U meeting was to help us further develop a center that would support and create significant learning experiences for students by moving away from a teacher centered approach to a learning centered approach. During our sessions together Fink made several references to technology but the phrase that caught my attention was this one: “technology can be use as a pathway to engagement pedagogy”. It’s a simple phrase but it really had an impact on me and helped me define great use of technology. I thought one of the most exciting examples of this was a class taught by Tracy Mendham an English professor at KSC who teaches an ITW 101 class (Integrative Thinking and Writing: A Blog of One’s Own). Here is a presentation she gave about her experience teaching the class and how she integrated Web 2.0 components to engage her students:

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