UEN Course: Designing Future Classrooms

Daily Resource / December 7th, 2022

Anyone who has spent more than a few weeks working with educational technology starts to see a growing mass of tools and curricular moves, webinars and update after update after update. It is a lot to pay attention to and build a structure for your classroom. So many directions and so many of them are seemingly overwhelming.

I faced this complexity the first time when I set up my last school’s makerspace. I wanted it all; every technological bauble in its most updated form. I quickly learned that tools without pedagogy make for a difficult situation, even more difficult if you cannot anchor the tool in the classroom. Designing Future Classrooms, which will run for the first time in Spring 2022 at UEN, is a course designed to look at some of the more exotic edtech tools and ideas (AR/VR, 3D printing, game design, design thinking, sequential art) situate them with a pedagogical approach (PBL, personalized learning, game-based learning, global collaboration) in order to examine a real-world application of the tool by community members. I am very excited to explore these tools, ideas, and real-world examples with teachers from Utah.

If you are an educator in Utah, you can join the course for free at this link (spot available as of writing). If you are not in Utah and are interested, please reach out to me at the email at the top of the page.