Teaching with technology and learning with technology: Reporting back from 2017’s ACRL Immersion

This CIE will report back from 2017 ACRL Immersion Teaching with Technology (TwT) participation. The TwT workshop’s aim was to foster a critical approach to instructional technology applications, develop a personal technology literacy framework, and to integrate instructional design methodology in one’s teaching practice.

This CIE will report back from my 2017 ACRL Immersion Teaching with Technology (TwT) participation (2day f2f workshop and four online meetings).

The TwT’s aim was to foster a critical approach to instructional technology applications, develop a personal technology literacy framework, and to integrate instructional design methodology in one’s teaching practice. The TwT was less about the “what” technology to use but more about the “why” and “how” to use it.

The CIE will focus on four significant TwT takeaways.

1. Char Booth’s USER Method (Understand, Structure, Engage, Reflect) which framed the f2f workshop and my TwT reflective project log.
2. Siemens Learning theory 2.0: Connectivism as a new learning theory for the digital age
3. Technology Affordance Evaluation, Usability Testing and Universal Design (UDL)
4. The Implementation plan

My CIE will include examples of the TwT workshop and my project in order to give attendees a concrete idea about the different takeaways listed above.