Category: Pedagogy
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Materials in motion: Exploring the use of animation in learning
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…
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Improving Presentations (or videos, or other multimedia) with Learning Science
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…
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The Optimist and the Skeptic
To generalize wildly, many people who work with educational technology like technology for its own sake. Not all teachers love it quite as much, especially in traditional fields like law. So how do you move from the enthusiasm of the early adopter reaction – “yay! Toys!” – to encourage widespread adoption of useful technologies in…
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MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs
Talk about an acronym that’s fun to say! MOOCs are a popular term in educations these days. A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. I first learned about MOOCs through the eduMOOC last year so I could learn more about online learning. Since then, MOOCs have been featured in national news sources and discussed at…
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Mindmapping Software – Essential for Law School
A few years back my employer (California Western School of Law) contracted with Mindjet to give every student, faculty and staff member access to MindManager mind-mapping software. I encouraged this collaboration as I felt the graphical qualities of mind-maps were particularly well suited to breaking down complex legal concepts into more digestible components, something our students would find…
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the impact of a skills-based legal education
NB: I do not have a JD and other than sitting in on a few 1L courses, I have not taken part in much of the law school classroom environment. What I do know is mostly from talking with students and from direct conversations with faculty. I am fully aware that curriculum is not “hypothetical”…
