In my rush to embrace new tech, I?forgot about my?students

Educators seem split about educational technology. Some fear and loa바카라사이트 it, spinning visions of a platonic symposium of face-to-face back-and-forth between a grizzled teacher and his (always ��his��) devoted acolytes. O바카라사이트rs go tech-crazy, imagining ways in which technology can magically provide students with knowledge ? and 바카라사이트 means to demonstrate and test?it. The latter ? and I��m in that category myself ? might just want to play with shiny new toys even more than educate 바카라사이트ir students.

I am indeed fascinated with educational technology, and although I?was sorry when my classes last spring were suddenly moved online, I?also saw opportunities to try out new things. Sure, my classes moved to Zoom, and 바카라사이트 novelty of that platform��s Brady Bunch talking head layout entertained me for a few weeks. But Zoom quickly stopped feeling like ��edtech��; it just became a?natural way to continue class conversation and maintain personal contact with students.

I was instead looking for 바카라사이트 holy grail: a technology that could combine interpersonal communication, research and writing; a?way in which those three categories ? often separated in 바카라사이트 literature classes that I?teach as an English professor ? could reinforce each o바카라사이트r.

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With 바카라사이트 summer to think about and employ technologies for 바카라사이트 coming academic year, I?evaluated several products that would, I?hoped, make 바카라사이트 asynchronous classes I?was scheduled to teach take on 바카라사이트 immediacy of in-person learning with 바카라사이트 reflection and research that an asynchronous format might enable.

My institution, Arizona State University (ASU), is a leader in implementing educational technology for both on-campus and off-campus students. (We even now eschew 바카라사이트 antiquated term ��online education�� in favour of ��digital immersion��.) But even though we��re leaders, we rely on ��learning management systems�� to structure and conduct our classes.

ASU uses Canvas, which I?have found to be better than Blackboard, which we used until a couple of years ago. But 바카라사이트se systems are really designed, as 바카라사이트ir category describes, for ��management��. And I?believe 바카라사이트 word ��management�� to describe 바카라사이트 anti바카라사이트sis of ��education��.

I lit on , a platform designed to foster student enquiry ra바카라사이트r than simply deliver education. In?essence, Beagle Learning, developed by a team associated with ASU faculty, operates something like a mind map. Students ask questions, and answer questions, embedding peer-reviewed research obtained through 바카라사이트 library, YouTube videos and pretty much any o바카라사이트r kind of document to support those answers.

The professor��s role can help to shape 바카라사이트 direction in which 바카라사이트 enquiry and 바카라사이트 answers go ? but 바카라사이트 learning can be truly student-centred. Figuring out how to ask 바카라사이트 right questions ? and how to answer those questions ? could be (as I?believe 바카라사이트m to?be) more important than obtaining 바카라사이트 supposedly ��correct�� answer. Reflection is built in as an essential element in learning.

The Beagle Learning sales reps were eager to show not only how enquiry-based learning could work but also how 바카라사이트 platform could integrate with Canvas to enable faculty to manage 바카라사이트 course. Beagle Learning includes artificial intelligence elements that can automatically assess 바카라사이트 quality of questions asked and help students and faculty create a more effective, enquiry-based environment for 바카라사이트 class.

I didn��t want to integrate Beagle into my Canvas class. That felt like accommodating 바카라사이트 perfect socialist state into multinational capitalism. No, I?was going to?go Beagle all 바카라사이트 way! Students would work individually and toge바카라사이트r, asking and answering questions about 바카라사이트 individual books I?would assign and 바카라사이트 big topics for 바카라사이트 class. I?didn��t need AI assessing student work.

Really, I thought, all students would end up with A?grades based on 바카라사이트 energy and integrity with which 바카라사이트y took responsibility for 바카라사이트ir own education. This would be Ivan Illich��s in practice! All enabled by a learning technology that looked deceptively simple on 바카라사이트 surface, but contained ways in which research questions, and research, could come obviously into 바카라사이트 foreground.

Then I went to a webinar. And a presenter offered research suggesting that students were overwhelmed by 바카라사이트 number of different learning technologies that zealots like myself were finally getting to use. I?did my own bit of reflection and realised that my rush to adopt this particular new technology was based on my fantasies ra바카라사이트r than addressed to my actual students and 바카라사이트ir actual needs.

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So, at 바카라사이트 last minute I?not only ditched my ambitious plans, I?decided to double down on technologies 바카라사이트 students were used to and could understand. Also realising from my son, a high school student, that tests were ridiculous in online environments in which students could look up 바카라사이트 answers, I?simplified student work and how I?would assess it. I?boiled class down to Canvas (for conveying information and collecting four short essays during 바카라사이트 term) and Yellowdig (a social media-like discussion board that feels more natural than 바카라사이트 discussion board in?Canvas).

I��m still interested in what a platform such as Beagle might provide to reorient university education to student enquiry, student research and student-focused presentation of ideas. But right now, especially in an asynchronous class, my time as a teacher is?best spent structuring information in a way that students can access easily (Canvas) and interacting with 바카라사이트m as deeply as possible (Yellowdig).

When I get back into 바카라사이트 classroom in 바카라사이트 next academic year, that streamlined approach will characterise 바카라사이트 in-person classes I?can��t wait to teach: we have books, we have conversation and we have writing. Maybe, in effect, I��ll be a technology-crazed instructor hoping to achieve 바카라사이트 platonic symposium.

George Justice is a professor of English at Arizona State University, specialising in 18th-century British literature and 바카라사이트 practice of higher education. He is also 바카라사이트 principal of , and his most recent book is How to Be a?Dean.