{"id":1974,"date":"2021-04-14T14:13:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2021-04-14T14:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:26:43","slug":"innovation-foundry-presents-at-the-society-for-information-technology-and-teacher-education-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2021\/04\/14\/innovation-foundry-presents-at-the-society-for-information-technology-and-teacher-education-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Foundry presents at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2021\/04\/SITTE-300x87.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"87\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On March 29 &#8211; April 2, the Innovation Foundry staff, <\/span><b>Dr. Marisa Beard<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>Stephen Rektenwald (&#8217;95)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><b>Amos Gutierrez (&#8217;19)<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shared two virtual presentations at the Society for Information Technology &amp; Teacher Education 2021 conference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1978 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2021\/04\/pres2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first presentation, \u201cCreativity in the Classroom: Engaging Students in the Creative Process\u201d highlighted research relating to creativity in the classroom that was derived from the Adobe Faculty Fellows program that awarded 17 grants to faculty since the fall semester of 2019. The presentation emphasized the need for the cross-curricular development of creativity as a learned skill for students to prepare them for the workforce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2021\/04\/pres1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The second presentation, \u201cExploring the Potential of Virtual Reality in Higher Education\u201d, featured research on the use of virtual reality by faculty and students at ACU in classes across the higher education curriculum including physics, sociology, and biology. The research focused on the benefits found in scholarly literature that was realized in our classrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 29 &#8211; April 2, the Innovation Foundry staff, Dr. Marisa Beard, Stephen Rektenwald (&#8217;95), and Amos Gutierrez (&#8217;19) shared two virtual presentations at the Society for Information Technology &amp; Teacher Education 2021 conference.\u00a0 The first presentation, \u201cCreativity in the Classroom: Engaging Students in the Creative Process\u201d highlighted research relating to creativity in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}