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SPIN

SPRING PEDAGOGY INSTITUTE

SPIN 2025: DESIGNING FOR EDUCATION

May 20, 2025 

Join us on Tuesday, May 20th for the second, annual Spring Pedagogy Institute focussed on “Designing for Education.” This year, we will be kicking off the three-year Designing Forward grant from the Davis Foundation by spending a day as a community thinking about what it means to design intentionally and creatively for teaching and learning. The morning will include a guest keynote presentation and workshop; in the afternoon, we will have faculty panels and presentations. All PSU faculty and staff are invited to join us for this event. 

On Wednesday, May 21st we will be hosting a second day of programming for those who apply for and are accepted to Season One of the Designing Forward grant. 

Register for SPIN now and consider submitting a proposal! 

Keynote Speaker: Sean Michael Morris

Sean Michael Morris has been working in digital education for 23 years. Beginning in 2012, he helped to surface the research field critical digital pedagogy, and co-founded the journal Hybrid Pedagogy. In 2015, he became the director of the global professional development event, Digital Pedagogy Lab, which was held on campuses across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. In his positions at Middlebury College, University of Mary Washington, and the University of Colorado Denver, he worked to empower K20 teachers with a deeper understanding of educational technologies and their impact on pedagogy and learning design. 
 
His work has been featured by National Public Radio, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Times Higher Ed, The Guardian, Forbes, Fortune, and by numerous podcasts across the education space. He has spoken to audiences on six continents on an array of topics from critical digital pedagogy, critical instructional design, alternative assessment, AI, and the role of imagination in teaching and learning. He is the co-author of An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy, and most recently published chapters in The Ends of Knowledge (Bloomsbury) and Virtual Identities and Digital Culture (Routledge).
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Preliminary Schedule

8:30AM – 9:00AM

Breakfast & Registration

TBD

9:00AM – 11:30PM

Desiging for Education: Design in the Moment

Keynote Speaker: Sean Michael Morris

TBD

11:30PM – 12:40PM

Lunch

Lamson Learning Commons

12:40PM – 5:00PM

Teacher to Teacher

Lamson Learning Commons

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Reception

Lamson Learning Commons

Register to Attend

Let us know you’re able to attend SPIN on May 20th. 

Deadline: May 9

Register

Submit a Proposal

We want to hear about your teaching successes and challenges! Share a 15-20 minute presentation about a new approach to assessment, a transformed assignment, your experience with technology in the classroom, or something else! 

Deadline: April 11

Submit