Location: International Room, Sterling Memorial Library

Date: Friday, November 30

Time: Lunch at 11:30am. Talk begins at 12:00pm

Presenters: Barbara Stuart, Lecturer, Department of English

Description: From course blogs to a class full of iPads provided by the library and ITG – Barbara Stuart will use her classes as an example of how we can use technology now and how we might use it in the future. She says, “Many years ago, when students still stood in long lines to register for courses – those were also the days of desktops in every office and dorm room – a group of us noticed the one student in a large, sweaty crowd who walked in balancing an open laptop on one arm. On that laptop was a spreadsheet of the courses he might take that fall semester. That’s weird, we all thought. Now, of course, we have online registration. And we have since gone from classrooms with the occasional laptop to seminar rooms and lecture halls full of laptops. Now Yale students even have tools for laptops, iPads, iPhones, and Androids to facilitate shopping and scheduling their courses, even for finding their classrooms. We can be sure that just about every backpack we see holds a laptop – or an iPad, because now in our classrooms, the occasional iPad crops up. Soon we will likely see classrooms full of iPads or similar tablets. Portable – portable devices and portable information – is the wave of the future. We need to ride that wave by using technology to achieve our pedagogical goals.”

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