At the Third Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium in April, ASSETT staffÌýawarded theÌý2015 Teaching with Technology Award.Ìý ASSETT recognizesÌýKimÌýasÌýan exceptional educator with a demonstratedÌýcommitment to improving the undergraduate student experience.Ìý ASSETTÌýTeaching with Technology Consultant Jacie MoriyamaÌýspoke about how he has effectively harnessed the affordances of technology for the purposes of teaching and learning.ÌýÌýKim 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.ÌýÌý
Kim also joined several other instructors at the Symposium in presenting a teaching with technology tool that he uses in his teaching.Ìý KimÌýuses open educational software that was created byÌýMIT for collaborative reading.Ìý NB is an online annotation tool that allows students to better engage with content.Ìý Through NB, the instructor can assignÌýarticles forÌýstudents to readÌýandÌýdedicateÌýprompts for students to consider and respond to as they read.ÌýÌýÌýWith NB, the instructor can better task students to consider their course readings with a more critical eye.Ìý Then, in class,Ìýstudents can use their annotations toÌýparticipate inÌýmore productive conversations about their class readings.Ìý Â鶹ÒùÔºÌýmust 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.