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Teach Boldly: Using EdTech for Social Good (Jennifer Williams) Chapter Two Summary | Emmanuel Babalola

Chapter 2 of the book #TeachBoldly addresses three key challenges educators face that has become barriers to their use of EdTech for social good.

February 3, 2023

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Blog-Experience in Research Family Group

As its name suggests, the research family group is like a family where our students from the LDT program and any other fields virtually gather to discuss the research and exchange any idea in our professional and daily life. The...

January 17, 2023

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What we know: A handful of dirt. What we don’t: The width of the world.

 “Katrathu kaiman alavu, kallathathu ulagalavu” - What we know: a handful of dirt. What we don’t: The width of the world, said the 12th century Tamil poet, and saint Avvaiyar. I always think about the great sayings our ancestors left...

October 13, 2022

The Creative Classroom by Keith Sawyer

The creative classroom! A book review

Hi all! For this blog post, I decided to review a book that I read a few months ago. The creative classroom: Innovative Teaching for 21st-Century Learners. In this book, Keith Sawyer, an expert in creativity research, talks about teaching...

March 2, 2021

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Exploring Self-Care

Shivani and Brantly reflect on self-care conversations in the research family.

January 18, 2021

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AECT 2020 Virtual Conference Full Time Volunteer Experience

This is my first time being a full-time volunteer on AECT. Especially it is my first time volunteering at a virtual conference! It is much better than I expected, and I had a great time with all the presenters and...

November 30, 2020

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Building a Research Family

Marisa and Wanju discuss their journey towards building a “research family” of faculty and graduate students.

October 30, 2020