Choosing Technology with Intention

The key aspect of this topic is not so much how to choose the right technologies for your courses and students as much as it is that what technologies you integrate into your teaching should indeed be an active choice that you make. Many times, technologies are chosen for us by others (by IT departments or campus administrators, for example), and those technologies in turn constrict the choices we make in our teaching, sometimes in ways that are so subtle, we barely notice. This topic encourages you to step back and look more critically at the technologies you currently use in your teaching, and also to lean in and think more creatively about the technologies you could be using– or even developing– if you approached your “chosen” technologies with more intentionality.