![]() The tools and resources on the web must be applied to help students become productive digital citizens of their 21st century global digital society. What do you see as your role in preparing your students for their place in their world? What specifically will you do in your classroom to ensure that preparation? Teaching in my field of medical laboratory science is fairly unique, in that we are actually training our students to take on a specific role in the much larger healthcare team. This close student-learning/employee-training relationship is emphasized even more by the fact that most of our students are hired by hospitals in the Gulf Coast region. Therefore, it is not uncommon to find myself in a conversation with lab techs from local hospitals about the quality of our recent graduates. This feedback allows us, as a faculty, to make adjustments to our curriculum as needed. Much of this feedback cannot be addressed by technology, such as teaching the students how to multi-task! However, I do believe that we can emphasize the importance of collaboration more with our students. Medical laboratory scientists (MLSs) collaborate with doctors, patients, nurses, and other MLSs on a daily basis. I incorporate group research, or problem-based, projects in each of my courses specifically to emphasize communication and collaboration skills. However, as hospital systems grow in size and offer laboratory services over a larger geographical area, much of this collaboration will be done digitally. By requiring the students to complete some of these projects online, I can make sure the students are familiar with some of the collaboration tools available online.
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Demetric DyAnn Williams
7/11/2016 11:11:38 am
Hi Mary:
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7/11/2016 04:04:33 pm
I had never thought about our students needing to communicate digitally before. Live web chats, email, and other forms of digital communication will become more important as the lab itself becomes more digital. In hematology digital communication is already becoming more important. The Cellavision allows peripheral smears from satellite clinics to be evaluated at one central hub. Digital communication skills and the ability to use technology is more important than ever in the clinical lab.
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