SEHD Impact

Category: Good Read

  • Recap on Something Queer event for LGBTQ faculty, staff and allies organized by Ed Cannon

    Recap on Something Queer event for LGBTQ faculty, staff and allies organized by Ed Cannon

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    Matt Mitchell
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    Some 80 members of the CU Denver|Anschutz Medical Campus community convened at the Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities for Something Queer, the third annual back-to-school gathering of LGBTQ faculty, staff and allies. The Aug. 16 event offered a networking opportunity, critical information and social support for new and seasoned faculty and staff to connect,…

  • Books@Work: Bandwidth Recovery

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    Matt Mitchell
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    This short-term book club meets twice in September to discuss this important new book. CFD will deliver a copy of the book after you register to participate. Please join us! Thursdays, Sept. 6 & 20 12:30 – 2:00 pm CFD Conference Room (320 Lawrence Street Center) Register: www.ucdenver.edu/cfd   Bandwidth Recovery Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive…

  • ReadMe: Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms

    ReadMe: Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms

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    Brad Hinson
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    Thanks to a grant from Chancellor Horrell, we are launching the ThinqStudio to examine critical digital pedagogy at CU Denver.  As a part of that work, we are sending 20 colleagues from the SEHD, CLAS, CAM, SPA, and CAP to the Digital Pedagogy Institute in July and August.  Among the topics explored this summer will…

  • Crafting Your Online Scholarly Presence (video/article)

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    Brad Hinson
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    A number of SEHD colleagues are exploring an initiative called A Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) in league with the thinqstudio. Attached is an article on the initiative from the latest issue of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy on Becoming Literate Digitally (PDF) – thank you Lori Elliot! This initiative involves personalized web sites for students and…

  • Video: Educating the Whole Person (Gardner Campbell)

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    Brad Hinson
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    How do you define personalized learning? =========== Gardner Campbell is a thought-leader in higher-education and digital pedagogy. He is an Associate Professor of English and Special Assistant to the Provost at Virginia Commonwealth University, where for nearly three years he also served as Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success as well as Dean…

  • NMC Horizon Report (2017) & the future of higher education

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    Brad Hinson
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    CU Denver Contributors – Brad Hinson & Dave Thomas Download the 2017 NMC Horizon Report (PDF) The NMC Horizon Report  is  an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education. Six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in educational…

  • Epic Learning: Large Class as Intentional Design

    Epic Learning: Large Class as Intentional Design

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    Brad Hinson
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    from DML Central | FULL ARTICLE … Pedagogical practices such as this — the curation and publication of classmate’s work by classmates — contribute to students being entangled in each other’s work, creating contagion where students pursue inquiries of their own design, inquiries that matter to them and begin to matter to their classmates as…

  • Watch: The Life of an Undocumented High-School Senior

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    via the Atlantic Ilse Cruz was brought into the United States by her mother when she was 4 years old, and has no memories of her native Mexico. She also doesn’t feel truly American—because she’s undocumented. “American culture and Mexican culture, they’re both a part of who I am but I can’t understand either one…

  • GoodRead: Are College Lectures Unfair? (NYTimes)

    GoodRead: Are College Lectures Unfair? (NYTimes)

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    Brad Hinson
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    DOES the college lecture discriminate? Is it biased against undergraduates who are not white, male and affluent? The notion may seem absurd on its face. The lecture is an old and well-established tradition in education. To most of us, it simply is the way college courses are taught. Even online courses are largely conventional lectures…

  • Professor Phil Strain and Pyramid Model Consortium

    Professor Phil Strain and Pyramid Model Consortium

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    Professor Phil Strain and Pyramid Model Consortium  colleagues offer suggestions in  “Supporting Children & Families during a Difficult Time” (Fox, Hemmeter, Strain, Allen, Ferro, & Binder, 2016) for program leaders and practitioners in dealing with potential issues and supporting young children and families during challenging times. Click here to access the PDF of this article.