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Mike Truong, Founding Executive Director, Office of Innovative Teaching and Technology, Azusa Pacific University<\/div>\n
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The demands faculty teaching in the digital age face are immense rom keeping distracted students engaged (high touch) to keeping current on the latest technologies (high tech). <\/div>\n
This presentation will provide some proven strategies on helping faculty meet these challenges. <\/div>\n
Specific ideas participants will take away from the session<\/div>\n
…<\/div>\n
\u2022  Articulate the challenges of teaching in the digital age.<\/div>\n
\u2022  Explain how technology can meet some of these challenges.<\/div>\n
\u2022  Emplo best- practices for teaching with technology.<\/div>\n

Where as other voices are overly critical of MOOCs or on the other extreme overly Utopian, Mike says he is in the middle, looking at technology pedagogically.<\/p>\n

He gave an extensive quote from Hamlet’s Blackberry.
We need space between our tasks to reflect.<\/p>\n

He then talked about the “really cool” Domino’s pizza app. “It is
amazing what you can do with ordering pizza now a days.”<\/p>\n

He is excited about the apps that allow you to buy glasses and take a
picture of a paycheck and electronically deposit it.<\/p>\n

You can buy a house online – you can buy a house without even looking  at it.<\/p>\n

“We are immensely better because of technology.”<\/p>\n

We can learn any time, place, and device.<\/p>\n

Students are demanding that faculty use more and more tech in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Pedagogy – gains, losses, and implications<\/p>\n

The essay is a good model for learning critical thinking  – but it is too alphabetic-centric. Word processing helps us but it promotes linear thinking.<\/p>\n

Technology – Jose Bowen – technology maximizes teachers face-to-face contact with students. Henry Jenkins says that technology encourages participation. Sugata Mitra – technology self-educates.<\/p>\n

He makes the claim that “the internet harms our ability to engage with difficult text and complex ideas” a quote from Nicholas Carr. Clifford Nass says that “Media multitasking impairs our focus, productivity, and creativity.” We are losing the ability to focus on one task at a time. He gives the argument of Sherry Turkle’s Connected Alone.<\/p>\n

He comes back to Wiliam Powers Hamlet’s Blackberry.<\/p>\n

He then talked about the story in Wired “Minimally invasive learning.” – the issue that has “The Next Steve Jobs” on the cover.<\/p>\n

Technology’s proper role is to supplement the learning.<\/p>\n

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