Category: In the Media
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Sean Michael Morris interviewed on MSN
We’re embracing tech during lockdown – but can it replace the classroom? Amid the challenges of implementing technology into our home lives, families are having to embrace technology to keep things “normal”, and finding increasingly creative ways to stay organized and educated online along the way. “People who never expected – nor ever wanted –…
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SEHD featured in CU Denver News for support to communities during COVID-19
The School of Education & Human Development faculty is responding to the disruption created by COVID-19 by finding creative ways to help students continue their educational journey online and continue to contribute to K-12 schools in their communities. “It’s tempting to focus on what we are missing and what we’ve lost for now, but we can also focus on…
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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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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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SEHD LEO Graduate 3D-printing face shields for healthcare workers
As health care workers continue to struggle with the critical shortage of gloves and masks in Denver, an engineering teacher in Lakewood is trying to help. LAKEWOOD, Colo. — In a garage-turned 3D-printing factory, Matthew Brown and his 12-year-old daughter, Amelia, are working overtime. “I saw people were printing equipment and masks so I just…
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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…
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Positive comments about SEHD
CU Denver’s social media team shared a birthday post to celebrate CU Denver’s birthday and asked people to share what they loved about the university. Three people who commented are part of the SEHD community. “Our students make this an awesome place to work.” Bud Talbot “It took me about 8 years to complete my…
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Kent Seidel and research partners quoted in Education Week on the Topic of Research and PD in Rural School Districts
“So, our approach on this has been to work collaboratively, closely in partnership with folks who are trying to get better evidence to change their practice on a day-to-day, year-to-year basis,” Seidel said. “By being a research partner to them, we’re actually able to better understand how things can improve over time and what really…