At the Third Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium in April, ASSETT staff听awarded the听2015 Teaching with Technology Award.听 ASSETT recognizes听Kim听as听an exceptional educator with a demonstrated听commitment to improving the undergraduate student experience.听 ASSETT听Teaching with Technology Consultant Jacie Moriyama听spoke about how he has effectively harnessed the affordances of technology for the purposes of teaching and learning.听听Kim has participated in a number of ASSETT programs such as the Teaching with Technology Seminar, the Hybrid and Online Course Design Seminar, and the Flipped Classroom Workshop.听听
Kim also joined several other instructors at the Symposium in presenting a teaching with technology tool that he uses in his teaching.听 Kim听uses open educational software that was created by听MIT for collaborative reading.听 NB is an online annotation tool that allows students to better engage with content.听 Through NB, the instructor can assign听articles for听students to read听and听dedicate听prompts for students to consider and respond to as they read.听听听With NB, the instructor can better task students to consider their course readings with a more critical eye.听 Then, in class,听students can use their annotations to听participate in听more productive conversations about their class readings.听 Students听must find evidence in the assigned readings to support their ideas.
The previous two winners of the Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology award are Assistant Professor Holly Gayley in the Department of Religious Studies in 2014 and Associate Professor of Linguistics, Kira Hall in 2013.
