As we near the holidays and a much-needed break, we wish you all well and take a moment to give thanks for our DMDL, G4L and ECT students and alums, our faculty- full time and adjunct alike- and to the ALT staff that support us as we navigate this new normal.
We hope you enjoy our Fall updates and spotlights and upcoming events about the Educational Communication and Technology programs at NYU!
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A special thanks to DMDL students Beiheng, Hannah, Ruobing, Viktoriia, Samhita, Roxy, and June, who designed a series of innovate new learning experiences for our incoming students this year including an ECT Scavenger Hunt , a "Behind-the-masks faculty video" and updated career pathway pages.
ECT Community Spotlights
ECT Faculty recently presented current research and works-in-progress, and ways to get involved.
Interested in participating or learning more? Check out the presentation recording or slide deck. to learn more.
Coming up Tuesday, 11/30/21 , 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Anna Amato on "Participating in Critical Data Literacy Through The Arts" via Zoom
And in case you missed any of our Fall presenters you can see them here:
Yeonji Jung on "Learning with Analytics: Engaging Students as Co-designers, Sense-makers, and Action-takers" (watch recording)
Dr. Vanessa Echeverria on "Human-centered Design for Collaboration Analytics User Interfaces" (watch recording)
Carolyn Sloan on "The Importance of Targeted Feedback in the Digital Learning Space" (watch recording)
Q&A with Maaike Bouwmeester
Clinical Assistant Professor; ECT Program Director
Listen to our recent inteview with Maaike Bouwmeester (she/hers) conducted by Chitvan Bindal, 1st year student in the DMDL program. Read full interview with Maaike >>
Reflections on Trends in the Field
As the world opens its borders and most schools move back in person (including ours!) - the past three months have been a period of readjustments. With ed tech, online learning and instructional design in the spotlight these days, we thought it’d be fun to reflect on the trends we're seeing!
by Athia Fadlina and Chitvan Bindal, DMDL students
"Do not forget yourself as a teacher of yourself" - Liping Ma
From Instructional Design to Learning Experience Design!
Chitvan Bindal, (DMDL '23)
Learning Experience (LX) Design is becoming “a thing.” More and more folks are changing their titles from Instructional Designer to Learning Experience Designer. What is Learning Experience Design, anyway? Why the change? What’s the difference?
Where are we heading?
Athia Fadhlina, (DMDL '23)
Context matters when it comes to unpacking market dynamics and identifying which technologies, business models or sectors are growing in education.
If you’re interested, the Global Learning Landscape taxonomy by HolonIQ identifies around 50 clusters of innovation opportunities relating to the future of education.
Source: holonIQ Global Landscape, 2021
Source: Whitepaper: Hoadley & Suraj-Uttamchandani, 2021
Current and Future Issues in Learning, Technology, and Education Research
Christopher Hoadley, ECT, New York University
Suraj Uttamchandani, Indiana University Bloomington
Four major developments in technology promise to fundamentally alter society: the rise of pervasive or “total” data, platforms for realistic “retina-grade” experiences, deployment of artificial intelligence and other algorithms for processing big data, and the increasing ubiquity of technology access but with digital divides.
More Inspiration!
NYU ECT professor, Camillia Matuk, writes about Learning about Science in an Unfolding Pandemic , exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic provided a context for learning about the role of science in a global health crisis.
Julie Daniel Davis, an Adjunct Professor at UT Chattanooga wrote a Medium blog post "The future of EdTEch: a 10Ps perspective" with a take on where she thinks the future of EdTech is heading. Can you identify more Ps from what she has already listed?
Apple released a new resource that helps elementary students learn coding. Aptly called “Everybody Can Code”, the curriculum was created by educators and Apple’s instructional designers. Check it out here.
SoundTrap for education is a platform that rethinks how music is taught in schools. Accessible through a browser in any device, it helps students and teachers explore how sound recording can be used in any subjects. Explore more here.
LEGO’s Spike Essential is a cross-curricular toolkit that hopes to promote meaningful learning in teaching STEAM. The set also comes with 449 Lego bricks as well as mini-figures with multiple personalities. Watch their video demo.
ECT Community Events/News
ECT DESIGN EXPO
All are invited to join us for our virtual end-of-semester celebration where we honor the achievements of our graduating students in the DMDL (Digital Media Design for Learning) and G4L (Games for Learning) graduate programs. Open to the public!
DETAILS:
Thursday, December 16th
5:00PM - 7:00 PM Eastern
RSVP here | More information >>>
ECT Portfolio Workshop & Competition
Our annual portfolio competition is back!
The ECT faculty are excited to invite current students to develop and submit their professional portfolio for a prize of up to $1000! We're looking at all portfolios and encourage students with beginning portfolios as well as more developed ones to enter this competition.
Drop in to learn more about the competition and tips for building your portfolio.
More information >>>
Get Involved!
We know it’s more important than ever to build community and stay connected. We hope you’ll join us in doing just that!
We know it’s more important than ever to build community and stay connected. We hope you’ll join us in doing just that!
ECT Community Hour
A time to chat, ask questions, get to know peers and alums. Drop in for a few minutes or the whole thing. All welcome! See ECT events schedule for more details.
Join here via Zoom!
Get Involved!
Are you looking for ways to get more involved and meet people? Join us in designing our ECT space, becoming our social media moderator for a month, organizing student events or writing for a future newsletter!
Contact Jeneva Hall (jh6135@nyu.edu) or Maaike Bouwmeester (mb262@nyu.edu) for more info!
Let's get Social
Explore other ways to stay connected via our Slack, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn channels.
Thanks to our Fall 2021 ECT Newsletter Co-Editors!
Maaike Bouwmeester, ECT Program Director
Jeneva Hall, Operations Administrator
Athia Fadhlina, DMDL Student
Chitvan Bindal , DMDL Student
Hannah Ally, DMDL student
Graphic Design: Momo (Kemeng) Zhai, DMDL student