SCEC Members Attend Conference
Sixteen members of the Georgia Southern University chapter of Student Council for Exceptional Children attended the Council for Exceptional Children's state conference in Macon earlier this month. This is the largest group from the university to attend this conference. For the first time a student from the College of Education was elected at the student state meeting as a state officer. Angel Lowe, a junior in our special education program, was elected as the Secretary of the Student Board. SCEC members have been holding fundraisers to help offset travel expenses to the state and national conferences.
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"DIGI" Lab Gives Students State-of-the-Art Learning Opportunities
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Associate Dean for Undergraduate Teacher Education & Accreditation, Deborah Thomas, talks with students working in the new DIGI Lab during a recent Open House to introduce the lab to faculty.
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To keep up with technology, classrooms are changing. So are the ways in which we learn. That's why the College of Education designed "DIGI" Lab, a learning environment that provides seamless integration of technology and opportunities to study and socialize in a group. DIGI is an acronym that represents the primary themes of the classroom design, said one of the creators, Associate Professor Julie Maudlin, Department of Teaching and Learning. "It stands for De-centeredness, Interaction with technology, Group collaboration and Inquiry-oriented instruction," Maudlin said. "It's designed to meet the needs of Net Generation students," she added. "The design offers a flexible classroom space to maximize engaging, student-centered learning opportunities, and provides a model of technology integration that COE students can apply in their future classrooms," Maudlin explained. Read more.
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 Cross-Cultural Issues Conference Draws Crowd
Nearly 200 participants attended COE's recent 12th Annual Cross-Cultural Issues in Counseling and Education Conference, according to Assistant Professor Breyan Haizlip, conference coordinator. "The conference focuses on racial identity development, ethnic identity development and gender and sexual orientation from infancy through adult maturity," Haizlip said.
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Faculty News
 COE's Associate Professor Christine Draper and Assistant Professor Lina Soares, both in the Department of Teaching & Learning, have recently finished the Spring 2013 issue of the Georgia Journal of Reading. This is the first hard copy of the journal to be published since Draper and Soares brought the journal to the College of Education last year. Their first issue, Fall 2012, was published online.
The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Vol 28, No 3 (2012 Special Issue  on Narrative of Curriculum in the South: Lives In-Between Contested Race, Gender, Class, and Power has just been released online. Guest editors are Professor Ming Fang He and Assistant Professor Sabrina Ross. The cover photograph was created by Associate Professor Wendy Chambers.Three COE faculty and six alumni contributed to the issue.
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