Month: December 2012
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Blending the First-Year Legal Classroom
Introduction to our Contracts Pilot With all the talk about blended learning, flipped classrooms, and the like, we wanted to visualize what that might look like in the legal classroom, but first lets take a peek at a situation that could be a catalyst for blending a legal classroom. The first-year courses are widely taught…
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The Rise, Fall, and Re-creation of the Counter-terrorism Simulation (Part 2)
Part 2: The Re-creation This isn’t a joke! They are learning! Aren’t they? Try this. Watch this three-minute video about the Simulation. Make a note every time someone mentions learning, learning objective, or outcomes for the students. Make another note when someone says something about a feature or a technology we used. Who wins? “Were the students learning?”…
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The Rise, Fall, and Re-creation of the Counter-terrorism Simulation (Part 1)
Sometimes, we get lost in the excitement of technologies. When you’re a hammer, all you see is nails, right?. It’s like that for us. Every problem or situation we see can be “improved” with technology. Last year at CALI, I talked a little about this… the “shiny object syndrome” we often develop… looking for places…
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Introductions are in order
Hey everyone, my name is Aaron Dewald, and I’ll be the poster for Dec/Jan. I thought I’d take a minute to introduce myself and let you know what I’ll be writing about over the next month or so. About Me I work at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. I’m…
