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The 2023 Annual Spring Teaching Symposium

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The 2023 Annual Spring Teaching Symposium
January 10, 2023: Registration now open

Sponsored by: Instructional Technology and Design Services (ITDS) & The Office for Faculty Excellence (OFE)

Keynote Presentation: Fieldnotes From an Educator’s Unlearning: Provocation and Possibility

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Remi Kalir

Description: Challenges within and beyond the university have catalyzed opportunities to unlearn and reimagine how we teach. In this keynote, Dr. Remi Kalir will share fieldnotes from his unlearning as a pandemic pedagogue—with attention to course design, digital pedagogy, and student engagement. Blending provocation with practical recommendation, Dr. Kalir’s talk will call upon educators to reexamine instructional routines, question learning design, and spark new educational possibilities.

Dr. Remi Kalir is an Associate Professor of Learning Design and Technology at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development. He studies annotation as a literacy practice that facilitates social, collaborative, and digital learning. Dr. Kalir’s 2021 book, Annotation (MIT Press), introduces annotation as a genre that is significant to scholarship and everyday life. His scholarship has appeared in Journal of Literacy ResearchInformation and Learning Sciences, Research in the Teaching of English, and Distance Education, among other journals. Dr. Kalir’s teaching career began at Middle School 22 in New York City. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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