#APM19 – Changing Teaching Practices for Technology: Using the SAMR Model for Technology Integration
On October 27, 2019 at 10:00 AM, during the Annual Program Meeting for the Council on Social Work Education in Denver CO, Melanie Sage and I will be sharing some insights from Chapter 4 of our book, Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology, co-written with Nancy Smyth. If you are still in Denver, please come find us in the Majestic Ballroom –Tower Building of the conference hotel. We will be sharing how Puentedura’s SAMR Model for Technology Integration can be used to incorporate technology into traditional social justice assignments in social work education. There will also be time to adopt one of your current assignments using the SMAR Model.
Additionally, we’ll be talking about our virtual book group that will be launch in January 2020. You can read more about it here:
For those of you who cannot make the presentation, we are including the details in this blog post.
Conference Presentation: Developing a Professional & Ethical Online Presence for Social Work Practice
On Thursday, October 3rd, I will be at the Alabama/Mississippi Social Work Education Conference presenting with Allison Curington, Field Director at the University of Alabama, about best practices for social workers in the use of social and digital media when working with clients and communities. During this workshop, we will cover the basics of social and digital technologies as well lessons learned from experience with training students and social work practitioners. Additionally, we will be sharing how to access the Social Media Toolkit for Field Educators, a free resource with educator’s guide and a PowerPoint slide deck.
If you won’t be at the conference, I am including all the important details about the presentation in this blog post.
First, you can access your own free copy of the Social Media Toolkit for Field
Educators here:
https://laureliversonhitchcock.org/2018/11/05/revised-social-media-toolkit/
Second, here is a link to a worksheet from the presentation: Develop your Professional Social Media Policy Worksheet
Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology Book Group
If you teach social work with technology, either online or in a traditional classroom, we (Melanie, Nancy and Laurel) invite you to learn with and from peers in this free book group – Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology. Goals of this virtual book group are to: 1) create a supportive learning community; and 2) provide space for reflection about one’s own professional development with teaching with technology.
This group will run from January to June 2020, with monthly meetings and a moderated online private Facebook group. The group will include live virtual meetings, with discussion moderated by an author and a guest educator. In between meetings, social work educators will lead and moderate book discussions, and offer reflective questions and simple learning tasks. Participants should have access to the book by January 2020. The schedule follows:
Three Ways to Model Good Boundaries with Technology in Social Work Ed
The National Association of Social Workers’ (NASW) Standards for Technology in Social Work Practice (2017) offer a number of standards for social work educators and practitioners. One of these standards focuses on maintaining boundaries with our students. This is not a new ethical practice for social work educators; we have always worked to maintain boundaries with our students. Rather, the challenge has been navigating these boundaries in virtual spaces as technology has changed when and how we can communicate and engage with each other.
Not surprisingly, the tech standard from NASW focuses on the social work educator taking precautions. Managing risk is a good idea, and I would suggest that we also embrace the affordances that digital and social technologies can offer our students, our classrooms and our own professional development. The big question for most of us is how to do this in ways that are comfortable, manageable, and ethical. Over the past few years, many social work educators have contributed their knowledge and expertise to this blog about how they engage students around technology in their classrooms. In this post, I have pulled together some of their suggestions for how you can model good boundaries with technology in your teaching practice.
Reviewing my 2019 grading practices for #SocWorkEd – Part 2
As I started the Spring Semester back in January, I reviewed my grading practices to make this assessment process more manageable and enjoyable for me. I wrote about this review in the following post – Changing my grading practices in 2019: Tips for #SocWorkEd. I focused on feedback from colleagues on Twitter to identify three main practices I wanted to adopt: 1) Rubrics and Grading Comments; 2) A list of Common Writing Mistakes; and 3) Creating Intentional Grading Practices. In this post, I want to share what I learned, how it worked, and some of the tools I developed.
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