Tom Pantazes

(he, him)
Ed.D., Instructional Designer @WCUofPA
Co-host of ODLI on Air podcast
former K-12 instructional technologist
Builder of Legos

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@karenraycosta If you don't mind sharing, I would love one. Thanks

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Should your teaching center start a podcast? How would you plan & produce it - or define & measure its' goals?

Derek Bruff is joined by @TomPantazes, @karensba & Jasmine Parent to discuss how CTLs can pull off a podcast.

https://t.co/klRhXjlxlS

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They built a 52 week block, with all key dates and impacting university items on it to help with scheduling programing

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After a wonderful presentation on our podcast (thanks to all who came) I am actually attending #wcurecap
Approaching Faculty
Professional Development

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focusing weekly emails from CETL office on what you can do tomorrow in your class and oh by the way here are the connections to the resources that can help you

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I really love how Millersville has a wiki for maintaining their content because it can track version history and is super flexible for adjustments, additions, subtractions, etc.

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aligning content delivery with the calendar of the institution to keep things faculty centered

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interesting point - people are now attuned to social media driven content - user created and pushed out

good / bad news - content has to be revisited at least once per year

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Define content strategy as "strategically sharing and updating web content"

how can you use existing content to share with users at time of need

Also focus on closing the loop - did the content strategy actually solve the issue

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Goals of the session:
1) Focus on a faculty content strategy
2) ID low stakes PD strategies
3) Discuss how to implement

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I appreciate how Dr. Kahen is using personal stories and connections to demonstrate how the various literacies can play out to provide a foundation for us to think about how to apply them in higher education settings

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I am presenting / attending #wcurecap today.

First session is the opening keynote with Dr. Vanessa Kahen

Finding our superpower: Leveraging technology & humanity to inspire equity mindedness in student success

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Dr. Kahen expanding on Humanics from Auon - focus on data, technological, and human literacies along with cognitive capacities of systems thinking, entrepreneurship, cultural agility, and critical thinking in higher education environments

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Dr. Kahen says students no longer see the utility of memorizing a bunch of facts when they can look them up on their phone - if a curriculum is focused on learning those things, they don't see the relevance anymore

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Dr. Kahen makes an interesting connection to how the technologies of the day drove the development of different types of universities and colleges

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Dr. Kahen suggests checking out Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Joseph E. Aoun because it highlights humanics or the study of human nature or human affairs

https://t.co/zhoEIdgLve

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Dr. Kahen highlights that two of the largest institutional equity gaps are for black and Latinx students. Then articulates that the research indicates if we focus on closing those gaps, we will actually improve lots of other metrics such as graduation rates.

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Dr. Kahen argues that our institutional structure was built for a different student population (predominantly white) and now we need to reconsider those structures as a mechanism for helping a more diverse set of incoming students succeed at the university.

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Dr. Kahen also mentions that they expect increases in Pell eligible, first generation, and veteran student populations

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With in that drop:
14% decrease in white students,
1% decrease in black students,
52% increase in Latinx students,
25% increase in Asian/Pacific Islander,
13% increase in American Indian/Alaska Native students, and
72% increase in students from two or more races

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Number of public high school graduates in PA expected to decline up to 5% between 2012 and 2027 (source is national center for education statistics)