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Program in Educational Technology, Curriculum and Instruction<\/a>, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education<\/p>\nTeaching Fellows project<\/h3>\n
Teaching Computer Science K-12<\/em> is an exciting new course that we are designing for the graduate program in Educational Technology. This class introduces students to new and innovative methods of teaching computer science and programming to children and adolescents. The course will come to life as the instructor and 果酱视频 students team up to plan and deliver a cutting edge technology afterschool program for public school students in Brownsville, Brooklyn. We will design hands-on lessons derived from the latest learning theories and with the latest tools: robotics kits, Internet of Things, video game design, augmented reality, and more. This new 果酱视频 course will pilot a model of instruction that fosters stronger partnerships with local schools, prioritizes contributions to our community, and positions 果酱视频 to be a leading voice in shaping computing education in K-12 schools.<\/p>\n Dr. Curinga teaches courses in computer programming, digital media studies, and learning sciences in the graduate program in Educational Technology. Before entering academia he worked for many years as a software developer in the New York City tech startup scene. He continues to build software systems for teaching and learning. His current research looks at ways we can teach computer programming effectively to a broad audience, especially when we combine computer science and critical media studies.<\/p>\n As a Teaching Fellow, Prof. Drew is developing a course entitled Digital Literacies and Democracy<\/em>, which is intended to provide a broad but rigorous introduction to the many ways in which new digital technologies are infiltrating and changing the ways in which corporations, individuals and both small and large communities (such as universities and nation states) surveil, mine data and subsequently interact with one another. The course will be taught as a freshman seminar in the fall with the goal of identifying ways in which it can be further developed to eventually become a permanent part of the freshman year learning experience.<\/p>\n John Drew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications and teaches courses in film and video, journalism and in digital media studies. Before entering academia he worked both as a print and video journalist. His research focuses on the intersections of the following areas: digital technology, human migration, neoliberalism and social justice. He is the recipient of three faculty development grants and is an active member of 果酱视频\u2019s DACA, International and Immigration Task Force. In 2016, along with two other 果酱视频 colleagues, he took a team of eleven students to Cuba whose coursework was developed into a multimedia website, Cuba Stories, which later became a finalist in the European Commission sponsored 2017 Annual MEDEA Awards. Professor Drew is also an avid filmmaker.<\/p>\n Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders<\/a>, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education<\/p>\n Dr. Namasivayam-MacDonald is designing a course that will help speech-language pathology Masters-level students to think critically about the management of swallowing disorders (dysphagia), with the use of simulated patients. Given that a large proportion of speech-language pathologists work with adults who present with swallowing difficulties, it is important that students develop the confidence and skills necessary to manage this population. In order to facilitate this, the new course will expose students to varying clinical scenarios and actively engage them in hands-on critical thinking and evidence-based practice procedures. In partnership with the School of Nursing, the students will practice their clinical skills with digitized mannequins in the nursing simulation labs. The ultimate goal is to design and implement a course that fosters top-notch future clinicians, who can use critical thinking to systematically navigate speech-language pathology literature relevant to their area of practice in order to confidently assess and treat their future caseloads.<\/p>\n Dr. Namasivayam-MacDonald is an Assistant Professor and Speech-Language Pathologist in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She teaches Dysphagia: Evaluation and Management, a Masters-level course focusing on the clinical management of dysphagia (swallowing disorders) in adults, and she supervises student clinicians managing clients with swallowing difficulties in the Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders. Prior to joining 果酱视频, she completed her doctoral studies at the University of Toronto and conducted research focusing on the relationship between nutritional status and swallowing disorders in residents of nursing homes. Her current research in the Aging Swallow Research Lab primarily focuses on understanding swallowing in people living with dementia, as well as dysphagia-related caregiver burden. She has received a Faculty Development Grant to carry out some of this work. In Spring 2018, she piloted a 3-credit, independent-study Advanced Dysphagia class for clinical Master\u2019s students at 果酱视频 to help develop their critical thinking and clinical skills. As a part of this class, the five students conducted research projects that were presented at 果酱视频 Research Day.<\/p>\n As a Teaching Fellow, Prof. Reno will develop a History course entitled Digital Archiving. The goal of the course is two-fold. The first is for students to learn the essentials on how to produce archival-quality digitizations of historical documents. Beyond their utility within the discipline of History, the technical skills gained through the course will be serviceable in many different areas as all of us are increasingly called upon, in our professional and personal lives, to become curators of information. The second goal is to allow students to experience the discipline of History in its purest and most foundational form, which is the discovery and identification of historical sources. Students will work with the 果酱视频 Library\u2019s University Archives and Special Collections to find documents within its rich holdings to digitize them. They will then develop research projects on the basis of this material, focusing on the particular history of the documents they have chosen and embedding them within the broader history of their respective eras. The material made accessible through these projects will become a permanent part of the Library\u2019s growing Digital Collections. For an overview of the various collections maintained at 果酱视频, visit 果酱视频 Library\u2019s Special Collections site.<\/a><\/p>\n Professor Reno teaches the Western Civilization sequence, Modern Condition, period surveys on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and Reformation, and advanced research seminars focused on topics such as the Crusades and the History of Early Christianity. His research centers on the History of the medieval Canon Law \u2013 the body of papal rulings, conciliar decrees and learned jurisprudence that, at its height, was the most advanced legal system in medieval Europe. His main focus has been in the area of textual scholarship, using the tools of paleography (the study of writing) and codicology (the study of manuscripts as a physical document) to discover previously unknown legal texts or make more accessible for other scholars a legal tradition that is still largely in unedited, manuscript form. Prof. Reno has also developed a number of Digital Humanities initiatives in service of making this material more accessible, including the Digital Decretals<\/a>, an ongoing project to produce a fully searchable version of one of the most important medieval canon law commentaries, the Glossa Ordinaria<\/em> of Bernard of Parma to the Liber extra<\/em>; and the Medieval Canon Law Virtual Library<\/a> (founded with David Freidenreich of Colby College), which assembles currently available digital versions of the principal monuments of medieval jurisprudence.<\/p>\nAbout<\/h3>\n
John Drew<\/h2>\n
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Department of Communications<\/a>, College of Arts and Sciences<\/p>\nTeaching Fellows Project<\/h3>\n
About<\/h3>\n
Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald<\/h2>\n
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About<\/h3>\n
Edward Reno<\/h2>\n
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Department of History<\/a>, College of Arts and Sciences<\/p>\nTeaching Fellows Project<\/h3>\n
About<\/h3>\n
Rani Varghese, PhD<\/h2>\n
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