Law School Ed Tech

By: Aaron J. Dewald, Originally posted at the Center for Innovation in Legal Education blog A year or so ago, a discussion on Teknoids had started about what defines a video. It was inferred that something needed to move to constitute a video. Do narrated slide shows from Keynote, PowerPoint, etcetera constitute videos? Legal education is going through some interesting changes […]

Note: This blog post was derived from a presentation I gave at the New York Law School. I was invited by Doni Gewirtzman and Kris Franklin to speak about the impact of learning science on the creation of presentations. I realized there are many nuances to the use of presentations. Some lecture with them, some […]

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 […]

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?” […]

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 […]

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 […]