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Wired IvySharing Screens & Skills (Footnotes)The classic structure of formal education is built on a one-way flow of information, from teacher to student. Since most educators' experiences as learners followed this conventional format, from K through 12 and beyond, it’s no wonder we often fall back on habit, stuck in that same transmit-only configuration even after we’ve transitioned from a traditional to a virtual classroom. In Episode 18 - Virtual Speaks Volumes, our guest Rebecca Hutchinson of UMass Dartmouth shared a wonderfully multi-directional approach to teaching and screen sharing in her synchronous online sculpture classes. Both Dan and Kieran found her example inspi...2022-01-1106 min
Wired IvyVirtual Speaks Volumes (Rebecca Hutchinson, UMass Dartmouth)Artists are trained to look, to examine the world from different perspectives, to notice the smallest detail and appreciate the big picture. Maybe that’s why sculptor, installation artist, and Professor of Art and Design, Rebecca Hutchinson, saw that it was entirely possible to teach studio arts, including ceramics, in a virtual classroom… and to recognize this opportunity for expanding her learner audience a decade before a global pandemic demanded higher ed faculty see online instruction through a different lens. Rebecca teaches using a collage of instructional formats and technologies that allow her to connect with learners, and f...2020-11-1738 min