Category: Colleagues
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Sean Michael Morris interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 7, 2020
‘On a Desert Island With Your Students’: Professors Discuss the Weirdness of Teaching Remotely in a Pandemic Sean Morris, a senior instructor in learning, design, and technology in the University of Colorado at Denver’s School of Education & Human Development, and Stommel, a senior lecturer and digital-learning fellow at the University of Mary Washington, in…
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CU Denver Special Education MA/Endorsement Student Jen Cwik Featured on 7News
Due to the threat of COVID-19, fourth grade teacher Jen Cwik can’t be in the classroom with her students. However, she’s found a new way to connect with them personally and teach them one of life’s most valuable lessons. [Read the article here]
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Welcome to the World Anil Hussein!
Congratulations to Chinar and her husband, Anil Hussein was born on April 3rd.
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Paula Gallegos Appointed to the Denver Public Schools Whole Child Task Force
Paula Gallegos has been appointed to the Denver Public Schools Whole Child Task Force. “Support for the Whole Child” is one of the five overarching goals in the Denver Plan 2020. The Task Force is comprised of DPS staff, parents and representatives of community organizations. Nine committees will evaluate best practices, provide recommendations, and oversee…
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Carlos Hipolito-Delgado Interviewed by The Theory of Change (Podcast), April 7, 2020
From Disruption Comes Change: Nurturing Sociopolitical Action With Youth In this episode, we meet Dr. Carlos Hipolito-Delgado, an associate professor of counseling at the University of Colorado Denver. We discuss how to foster sociopolitical action with youth and talk about how to make purposeful use of social tension and take critical perspectives of our society…
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Sean Michael Morris interviewed in Inside Higher Ed, April 3, 2020
As Times and Students Change, Can Faculty Change, Too? Some faculty don’t recognize how the demographics, and thus the needs, of students are changing. At issue is a gap between many professors’ own experience and that of their students. “You have professors, potentially, who make the assumption that your schooling is the same as my…
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Cheryl Matias Selected as 2020 Recipient of the AERA Division K Mid-Career Scholar Award
CU Denver’s Cheryl E. Matias, associate professor in the School of Education & Human Development, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division K Mid-Career Scholar Award. The mid-career award honors an outstanding researcher in the second stage of their research career. It recognizes scholars who have established…
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Online Playgrounds for Learning Mathematics
Heather Johnson’s work on “Online Playgrounds for Learning Mathematics” was recognized by Prof Robert Q. Berry, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. In the webinar, Berry provided video resources for online teaching, including Johnson’s recent blog post, Create, Don’t Convert: http://hthrlynnj.com/presentations/create-dont-convert/
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Sean Michael Morris quoted in Inside Higher Ed
The shift to remote learning: the human element Can we expect that pandemic-related pedagogies, policies and approaches will somehow change the face of education? “What’s happening now isn’t what we ever imagined for online education or digital learning,” says Sean Michael Morris, director, Digital Pedagogy Lab, and senior instructor of learning design and technology at…
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Sean Michael Morris interviewed by National Public Radio, March 19, 2020
‘Panic-gogy’: Teaching Online Classes During the Coronavirus Pandemic Digital learning experts have some surprising advice: do less. Sean Michael Morris, senior instructor in the learning design & technology program at the University of Colorado Denver, says that in this unprecedented time. “Recognizing that we’re also human, we also have to figure this out together is…