Teaching with Tablets for Increased Student Engagement and Accountability
Hi everyone,
Please see the following announcement from the Chemistry Department and Brett McCollum:
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The 2013-2014 academic year marks the 5th year of the Chemistry and Biology Speaker Series! The Department of Chemistry would like to invite you to our first colloquium of the Fall 2013 semester,
Brett McCollum, PhD, will be speaking on “Teaching with tablets for increased student engagement and responsibility“.
Dr. McCollum received his PhD from Simon Fraser University in 2008, investigating chemical reaction mechanisms of organic and organometallic compounds using a light “isotope” of hydrogen, muonium. In addition to his research at TRIUMF, Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, he has been engaged in the systematic investigation of educational practices and the use of technology in chemistry. McCollum is a current Nexen Scholar with the MRU Institute of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and a Apple Distinguished Educator.
“Touchscreens are doing for education what books, chalk, computers, and calculators have done in the past. They are opening the doors of education, they are allowing us to acquire, create, and share knowledge faster than ever before. What we’re really doing here is building on the strengths of the traditional teaching model and modernizing it for technology available today that students are well-adapted to use.”
Date: Monday, September 23, 2013
Time: 1:00-1:45pm
Place: B-341
We invite you to join us for the best 45 minutes of your day.
Brett McCollum, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Apple Distinguished Educator, Nexen Scholar
Department Chemistry
