Realizing the Promise of Teaching with Technology: Minds Online Today
Educators are all in the business of changing minds: We build new memories, guide students in developing new skills, and invite our students to take new and different perspectives. With an understanding of key principles about how the mind works, we can use technology to create learning experiences that are memorable, compelling and effective. These principles can also help us address and overcome barriers to realizing the promise of teaching with technology, including the challenges introduced by new developments in AI for education. In this interactive keynote address, researcher and author Dr. Michelle Miller will demonstrate and explain these key principles through the lens of her book Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology, coupled with discussion of important developments since the book’s publication.
Dr. Michelle Miller is a cognitive psychologist, researcher, and author focused on supporting higher education faculty in creating effective and engaging learning experiences for students. She is the author of Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (Harvard University Press, 2014), Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World (West Virginia University Press, 2022), and a new book coming out in November 2024, A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can (University of Oklahoma Press).
Michelle Miller, PhD, Professor of Psychological Sciences and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Northern Arizona University