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Leader of Learning Podcast episode 165: Exploring the Future of Technology in Education with John Sowash

Leader of Learning

John discusses the future of technology in education, specifically focusing on the impact of AI and the latest developments in Google’s educational tools. Guest Information: Since 2011, John has worked with schools around the world, providing practical, hands-on professional development and technology integration support.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since Apple introduced Siri, its voice-controlled software, in October 2011, consumers have begun normalizing interactions with narrow AI. Powered by Gecko, this technology has effectively increased our ability to answer prospective and current student questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Leader of Learning Podcast episode 165: Exploring the Future of Technology in Education with John Sowash

Leader of Learning

John discusses the future of technology in education, specifically focusing on the impact of AI and the latest developments in Google’s educational tools. Guest Information: Since 2011, John has worked with schools around the world, providing practical, hands-on professional development and technology integration support.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It shows Gates shaking hands with President Barack Obama, who had just presented him with the National Medal of Science an honor Gates says he didnt even know existed until he began service on the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, or PCAST, in 2009.

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.