Tom Wulf is currently working on an Ed. D. in Curriculum and
Instruction. He holds a M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science - both from
the University of Cincinnati. Since 2001, Tom has been Assistant
Professor of Information Engineering Technology, College of Applied
Science at the University of Cincinnati.
Welcome
We know that learners have a variety of needs, preferences, and
strengths. Continuing educational research shows teaching strategies
which address these diverse talents and ways of learning as well as the
unique cultural, ethnic, class and gender characteristics of the learner
will be the most effective. One of our goals, as educators, is to
prepare students for success in life-long learning endeavors by
helping them to become aware of their own learning needs. Technology
provides many options for encoding and delivering instructional content
and allows us to tailor that encoding to the individual learner.
However, redundantly encoding curriculum content to make it appeal to
the multiple needs of our diverse student population can be very
labor-intensive. Collaboration among educators can reduce this workload
and result in richer and more effective curriculum content.
Learning Philosophy
“Do no harm!” should be the
first rule for every educator. When we consider the tremendous power we
have to inspire, to motivate and to enthuse our students with the desire
to learn as well as our converse ability to create life-long antipathy
for a subject or even learning itself, we must carefully consider all
that we do when we teach. In particular, we must be vigilant in
fostering an awareness of the attitudes and messages, both explicit and
implicit, that we communicate to our students, as these can have dire,
unintentional impacts.
I believe that we must try to engage our
students to participate actively in their own learning in order to
prepare them for the self-directed, life-long learning required in modern
society. This should be based on their individual capabilities,
interests, and backgrounds.
In order to do this, we need to have not just a respect for the
diverse gender, cultural, societal, and ethnic backgrounds that we
encounter in the classroom, but more importantly an understanding of our
students. Only then can we tailor our instructional efforts to them as
individuals. I believe that technology can be utilized to more
effectively accomplish this goal.
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