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Hiram College Unveils ‘Tech and ‘Trek’ Initiative for an iPad-Powered Learning

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Over 875 full-time traditional students, faculty and staff members at Hiram College, Ohio will be receiving a new iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and a keyboard bundle thanks to its new technology initiative, “Tech and Trek.”

The goal of “Tech and Trek” is to get students to be connected both inside and outside of the classroom. While the technology will help them increase their productivity and learning in the classroom, students are also encouraged to go outside for a few hours a couple of times a month, or once a week.

“ The Hiram experience is a journey of exploration and inquiry. These tech devices will be a vital part of the many exciting treks that our students take,” Hiram President Lori Varlotta announced in a press release about the new initiative. “Whether they are roaming through the historic 19th-century Hiram Village, hiking the trails at our 600-acre Field Station, trudging through streams and marshes collecting research samples, embarking on study-abroad trips that have visited 36 countries, or gaining work experience at one of our many internship sites, these devices will help students capture and connect the ideas, feelings, images, and questions that will change their lives.”

Heather Balas, director of career and academic development is optimistic about “Tech and Trek.”

“I am certain this effort to put iPad Pros in the hands of our students, faculty and staff will increase student engagement and better prepare graduates,” Balas said in the press release.

Hiram is able to get the new technology thanks to a $2.1 million gift from Dean Scarborough, a Hiram alumnus, and his wife Janice Bini. This gift is the largest gift in the school’s history, according to Crain’s Cleveland Business .

This is not Scarborough and Bini’s first donation to the school; last May they gave $1 million to the school.

“Janice and I are passionate about helping Hiram build upon its 167-year history while positioning it for the 21st century,” Scarborough said.

During Phase I, all 800 of Hiram’s full-time traditional students, as well as 75 full-time faculty and staff members, will receive the iPad, Apple Pencil and keyboard bundle. In Phase II, however, the technology will expand to non-traditional students, such as graduate students and students taking classes at the college’s community college partner sites.

Hiram is the first four-year college in Ohio to adopt Apple mobile technology, but this type of initiative has been done before. Schools in Florida, Missouri and other states have adopted similar measures.

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Hiram College as the New Liberal Arts: Integrated Study, High-Impact Experiences, Mindful Technology

By Lori Varlotta

April 5, 2017

Starting this fall, Hiram College—a liberal arts institution in northeast Ohio—becomes one of a small number of colleges and universities throughout the country to roll out a 1:1 campus-wide mobile technology program. This 1:1 program issues all full-time traditional college students, faculty and staff a state-of-the-art technology package.

As a longtime educator, I know that mobile technology plays an increasingly prominent role in the lives of today’s students. Until very recently, however, colleges and universities have not been as quick as K-12 schools to implement institutional-wide mobile programs. Indeed, many of us are just now in the midst of conceptualizing and implementing a mobile technology program for our own campus.

The Emerging Initiative

Starting in fall 2017, Hiram will equip all full-time students in the undergraduate college, faculty and staff with an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and keyboard/case bundle. While students are buzzing about the devices, college faculty and administrators are designing the program in ways that go well beyond the broad distribution of contemporary gadgets. To communicate its broader purpose, we have titled our program Tech and Trek . The cornerstone of our program is to teach students how to creatively and critically use technology to navigate the many treks they take on their undergraduate journey.

We believe this mindful—rather than perfunctory—use of technology sets our mobile program apart from those elsewhere. Moreover, it adds a contemporary and highly relevant dimension to the types of offerings and experiences prevalent at classic liberal arts colleges like Hiram. This incorporation of technology is not occurring in a vacuum; it is occurring via a symbiosis that enhances the top-notch classroom and out-of-classroom experiences that are long-standing traditions here. The synergy between active classroom learning, high-impact experiential activities and mindful technology creates a whole that is bigger and better than the sum of its parts. We are fashioning this powerful combination—this newly configured whole—as “New Liberal Arts.”

Let me explain.

Integrated Study: Active Classrooms That Assimilate Theories, Personal Stories and More

Students at small liberal arts colleges like Hiram do not often sit through a “sage on a stage” lecture. Intimate and interactive teaching, learning and sharing are not just rhetoric, they are reality here. Since these are the exact classroom features that are easily enhanced by mobile technology, Hiram faculty have welcomed the introduction of Tech and Trek. In short order, they have come together to discuss how they will use mobile technology to expand and redefine the “flipped classroom,” student group work, hands-on assignments and the like. Already, they are brainstorming ways to:

• Facetime or Skype with content experts no matter where they live or work,
• Teach students how to use Twitter and other social networking tools to gather observations and perspectives from students, teachers, and leaders who live and work beyond the confines of their own community,
• Curate or create interactive e-books that lend themselves to annotations, highlighting, and embedded media and quizzes,
• Introduce simulation tools that help students model physical or social phenomena,
• Use music/artistic tools to create and share expressive performances or original visual projects,
• Utilize presentation apps to create state-of-the-art visual aides, and
• Incorporate on-the-spot assessments (advanced clicker-type technology) to discern real-time comprehension of material.

The use of technology in any one of these ways enlivens classroom learning by serving as a sophisticated tool for assimilating personal observations, textbook theories, and interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies. In doing so, it brings integrated learning to a whole new level, sharpening the very skills thought to be diminished through a perfunctory use of technology. Indeed, Tech and Trek will help students develop the real-world and real-time skills of oral communication, teamwork, problem-solving, critical thinking, and civil discourse with the classmates sitting next to them right now.

High-Impact Experiences: Treks that Fuel Learning and Transform Life

In addition to active classroom experiences, Hiram undergraduates have long taken out-of-classroom treks, including study abroad trips, internships, guided field work, research experiments and service learning projects. Since the learning that occurs in these venues is impactful (even life-changing), Hiram officials want to ensure that all students participate in at least one of these transformative ventures. Hence, we modified degree requirements in 2014 to mandate that all students successfully complete an internship, study-abroad trip or guided research project.

To maximize the transformative potential of these learning experiences, we are designing Tech and Trek to ensure that mobile goes mobile with mindful technology. At the very moment I am writing this blog, the offices and committees that oversee study-abroad trips , internships , service-learning projects and guided research are talking about the ways we can teach students to productively and ethically use technology in all of these venues. As students embark on such journeys, they will use their device to capture, compile, organize, analyze and reflect on both the expected and unexpected people, places and things they encounter.

It is clear that mobile technology will help our student travelers memorialize the trip of a lifetime. Students visiting ancient monuments and ruins will be able to augment a written narrative about their visit with photography and videography. Students can also use location-aware search apps to ask questions and get on-the-spot responses to what they see in the moment: how deep is this lake, and what type of fish are plentiful here? How tall is this tower, when was it built, and why does it look “crooked?” If all of this isn’t exciting enough, they can use a multimedia app to store the image they have photographed along with the electronic notation they have made with their smart pencil. And they need not spend their travel money on an international SIM card to let Mom and Dad get a sense of what they have been up to. Instead, they can use wikis, Twitter and other forms of social medial to publish and share original work with friends and family thousands of miles away.

In addition to study abroad opportunities, there will be iPad-powered experiences for those who are earning credits through service-learning projects, internships and clinicals as well. There is nothing far-fetched about a student recording an on-the-spot interview with the site supervisor of a service-learning project or a student intern audiotaping a presentation he is making to his “boss.” Similarly, a student teacher could record a math lesson she is delivering to her tenth-grade geometry class, and a student nurse can be videotaping the interactions his class partner is having with a patient under their care. All of these recordings could then be reviewed by the faculty member who can see and hear exactly what the students are saying and doing. Faculty overseeing such courses can assess the remote learning without traveling for each observation to the student’s place of work.

The New Liberal Arts: Using Mindful Technology to Strengthen Pedagogy and Programs

As you have read, Hiram learning has long been fueled by both interactive classrooms and high-impact experiential activities. The exciting thing about Tech and Trek is that introduces a mindful technology component that has not been present before.

As we see it, mindful technology is more than simply knowing how to use technology. It is also about delving into the when – where -and to-what-extent- questions that are sometimes out of sight or overlooked in the technology-saturated world we now inhabit. When mulling over when/when not to use this technology, Tech and Trek will prompt students to explicitly consider culture mores, privacy concerns, institutional (hospital, museum, theater) policies and other factors that may be at play in the situation at hand. Furthermore, Tech and Trek is designed to remind them that in many situations (foreign travel, restricted areas, etc.), failure to make the right decision can result in real-life consequences. All of this will help students determine when it might be better—more natural, more humane, more sensitive—to put the device down and keep their eyes, ears, and, most importantly, their hearts open.

When combined with our already strong classroom learning and our powerful out-of-classroom treks, we believe that Tech and Trek’s mindful technology positions Hiram College to become a national model for the “New Liberal Arts.” This model will be known for maximizing the symbiotic relationship between integrated study, high-impact experiences and mindful technology.

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Hiram College announced its Tech and Trek™ program in February 2017 to position the College as a place where mobile technology meets mindful technology. By equipping students with an iPad Pro Bundle including Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard Folio, a pair of hiking boots, and a preloaded suite of educational apps, the 1:1 mobile technology program gives students the opportunity to augment classroom studies; to navigate the literal and metaphorical treks they take at Hiram; and to collate and capture documents, multimedia presentations, photographs, videos, and other academic artifacts to share with friends, family members, prospective employers, or graduate schools.

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Tech and Trek at Hiram College

This fall, Hiram College becomes one of just a few universities in the country—and the only four-year college in Ohio—to launch a campuswide mobile technology program. Thanks to a $2.1 million gift, Hiram will issue all full-time undergraduates and all faculty and staff an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and keyboard bundle in an effort to promote “mindful technology .”

As we see it, mindful technology is more than simply knowing how to use technology. It is also about delving into the when, where and to-what-extent questions that are sometimes out of sight or overlooked in the technology-saturated world we now inhabit.

The program, dubbed “Tech and Trek,” is designed to mitigate the fears many parents and educators harbor regarding the increased use of technology by today’s youth.

Many of those concerns are corroborated by research that claims the heightened use of technology thwarts young people’s development of interpersonal skills, and also diminishes—sometimes in significant ways—their mental and physical well-being.

To ward off those potential dangers, faculty and administrators are leveraging the use of mindful technology in the literal and figurative treks that mark a Hiram College education.

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At Hiram, experiential activities—“treks” if you will—are not just rhetoric. They are requirements that students must complete an internship, study-away trip or guided research project.

Tech and Trek ensures that students not only participate in one or more of these activities but that they practice making the most of the experience “in the moment” and reflect on its impact once it concludes. Students traveling abroad, for example, make their journals come alive with photo- and video-enhanced entries.

Their real-time understanding of historical buildings and natural wonders will be sharpened as they access location-aware apps to answer on-the-spot questions. Later, students can use various forms of social media to send multimedia presentations to friends and family thousands of miles away.

Students also make videos to show the immediate impact their service-learning project has on the community they are serving. Interns record presentations they delivered to their bosses and play them for the faculty member who is supervising the internship. Student teachers and nurses record interactions with their respective students and patients.

After viewing their own performance, they make adjustments to improve future interactions. To help obliterate the sedentary lifestyle correlated with the frequent use of technology, Hiram students also receive a top-end pair of Vasque hiking boots.

This part of Tech and Trek has been made possible thanks to a partial corporate gift from Red Wing Shoes, plus private donor support.

Tech-free treks

Our design of Tech and Trek prompts students to explicitly consider cultural mores, privacy concerns, institutional (hospital, museum, theater) policies, and other factors at play on their treks.

As such, it also helps them determine when it is better—more natural, more humane, more sensitive—to put the device down and keep their eyes, ears and (most importantly) their hearts open.

For treks closer to home, we plan to institute campuswide “Trek Time”—an hour or so each week when all members of the community are encouraged to put their devices down and “be present” without technological interventions.

During this time, many of us will lead hikes through the trails at the college’s 550-acre Field Station or organize a walk along the three-mile square around the campus. The treks described above have long been the hallmark of a Hiram education.

Now we are engaged in stimulating conversations about how and when technology can help students navigate these transformational journeys.

Lori E. Varlotta is president of Hiram College in Ohio.

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The New Liberal Arts: Where Mobile Technology Meets Mindful Technology

Lori Varlotta | President, Hiram College

Let’s face it: as we enter the third decade of the 21 st century, there is a new normal in higher education for both students and the institutions that serve them. In terms of the former, we have never enrolled students who are as racially, ethnically, and age diverse, as likely to be juggling multiple life roles (employee, parent, student) and as impacted by financial hardships as is the case today. At the same time, institutions of higher learning, particularly tuition-driven liberal arts institutions (TDLA), have never been scrutinized so critically, in terms of their cost and value proposition, effectiveness in building career pathways, and likelihood of improving graduates’ overall lives. To respond to these immediate challenges and anticipate the next wave of challenges and opportunities, colleges must be willing and able to change.

Over the last several years, Hiram College has emerged as a national leader in envisioning and implementing the types of changes that will simultaneously strengthen the institution and provide concrete benefits to students. As this article reveals, the systemic changes at Hiram, dubbed the New Liberal Arts™ (NLA), are of benefit to just about everyone.

Hiram’s New Liberal Arts — a powerful combination of integrated learning, high impact activities, and mindful technology—does more than prepare students to be well read and well rounded. It is also designed to develop intellectually agile and socially responsible thinkers and doers . There are many of this model’s features that are worthy of review. At the moment, Hiram is using mindful technology to integrate classroom and out-of-classroom activities while leveraging the types of high-impact experiences for which small colleges are often known.

Tech and Trek: The Impact on Classroom Learning and Out-of-Classroom Treks

In fall 2017, Hiram College became one of just a few universities in the country — and Ohio’s only four-year college at the time — to launch a campus-wide mobile technology program ( Tech and Trek ™). Thanks to a $2.1 million donation, Hiram equipped all full-time undergraduates along with all faculty and staff with an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and keyboard. Before and during the program’s inaugural year, colleagues in the Office of Learning Technologies coordinated a series of training workshops that explained how to use this 21 st century technology in mindful ways within the education space. To underscore the program’s differentiating “mindful component” and encourage students to get out and about with their devices, the college also gifted a pair of high-quality hiking boots to all full-time students in the Traditional College. From day one, Tech and Trek was a different type of mobile technology program.

Classroom Learning

Interactive teaching that integrates the experiences, expertise, and observations of the faculty, class participants, and class guests is a hallmark feature of the New Liberal Arts. Two and a half years into the program, approximately seventy percent of all faculty have reported using the new mobile technology in their classroom, and responses from routine student surveys have strongly suggested that the technology helps students learn and stay focused on the task at hand. The increases in learning and focus are fueled by some of these Tech and Trek pedagogies:

• FaceTiming or Skyping with content experts in distant places
• Using social networking tools to gather observations and perspectives from students, teachers, and leaders on and beyond the campus
• Utilizing presentation apps and/or music and artistic tools to create state-of-the-art visual and audio aides
• Curating and co-creating interactive e-books that lend themselves to group annotations, group highlighting and note sharing
• Employing simulation and 3D modeling tools that help students examine physical or social phenomena
• Requiring incoming students to create and maintain an e-portfolio that contains signature assignments, personal reflections and faculty and advisor feedback

Outside Treks

In addition to bolstering active classroom learning, Tech and Trek is being incorporated into study-abroad trips, internships, guided field work and research experiments now required at Hiram College. Shortly before Tech and Trek was implemented, Hiram faculty modified degree requirements to mandate that all students successfully complete an internship, study-abroad trip or guided research project before graduation.

Today, the faculty and staff who coordinate and deliver study-away trips, internships, service-learning projects and guided research teach students to proactively consider how they will use technology in a mindful and venue-appropriate way. In doing so, students are able to capture, compile, organize, analyze and reflect on both the expected and unexpected people, places and things they encounter during these high-impact experiences.

The Next Step for Tech and Trek: Digital Literacy

As faculty continue to embed technology into course work and staff continue to deploy it in co-curricular experiences, the need to develop digital literacy is surfacing as an important next step for the program. Hiram began to pave the way for this development during its annual Tech and Trek Conference that brought Alan November to the keynote stage. In his presentation, Mr. November underscored the effects of information overload and then engaged the audience in a conversation on information access, validity, and appropriateness. It was an early step in helping faculty and staff understand for themselves how web-based materials are organized and accessed so that they can share this vital information and teach students the skills they need to be informed, safe, and successful 21 st- century learners.

As we continue to build this understanding, Hiram faculty and staff are well aware that today’s challenges of accessing, culling, and selecting research documentation is far different than it was in the past. In previous decades, access to information was the challenge. Students were required to visit a physical site — most often, the college library — to obtain or order (via inter-library loans) the materials they needed for a research project. These facilities were staffed by trained reference librarians who guided students through their search. Today, access to information is not the obstacle students must overcome. In seconds, students can launch and bookmark all kinds of web searches on their personal mobile devices. Getting information is easy; determining what kinds of information (from what kinds of searches or web inquiries) are most appropriate or legitimate for the project at hand is not.

Hiram seeks to assist students in sharpening their digital literacy skills. Still, we haven’t abandoned the goal of introducing students to conventional resources (books, paper journals, and microfilm) and to physical facilities (the college library). For these reasons, we have situated our new Tech and Trek program in a renovated library commons. It’s the perfect place to ensure that students get broad instruction on how to conduct an informed electronic search, locate obscure or original manuscripts that may not be found on the web, and engage in group study and collaborative research.

One Step Hiram Won’t Take: Habitual or Perfunctory Use of Technology

From the outset, one of the most fundamental assumptions grounding Hiram’s Tech and Trek program was that more is not always better when it comes to technology. Rather than focus on the quantity of technologies and their uses, faculty and staff endeavor to teach and develop mindful technology . We offer a plethora of opportunities that promote digital etiquette and examine the intersection of mindful and mobile technology. On the academic side, we created and delivered a “pop-up” course called Mind, Body, Tech that prompted students to examine their personal screen time, encouraging them to supplant some of it with “green time,” or quality time in nature. Similarly, our co-curricular offerings included several mindful technology programs that gave faculty, staff and students the opportunity to practice this type of mindfulness, emphasizing all the while that “practice makes progress, not perfection.”

Perhaps our most intense offerings in mindful technology are those that are offered at  Northwoods , one of two biological field stations, this one in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Starting last year, Hiram committed to offering a summer Mindful Technology retreat at this beloved destination. During these “Balancing Screen Time with Green Time” retreats, students and facilitators have very limited time with their devices while they jointly focus on a topic or skill for the experience. Once they return, they often report a greater sense of productivity and intentionality while using technology.

Since 1850, Hiram has been a place where critical thinkers and doers have found a home in which to learn and launch. In 2020, Tech and Trek offers the current generation of students the proper tools to take on today’s complexities and opportunities. Tech and Trek’s universally distributed iPad Pros and hiking boots ensure that all students begin their undergraduate journey on a level playing field with top-notch equipment. It also incentivizes faculty and staff to design a 21 st- century mindset and skillset that students are able to demonstrate before graduation. Three years into the program, we’re aiming to have our graduates demonstrate an effective and critical use of technology, an understanding of digital literacy along with integrated and interdisciplinary problem-solving skills.

Regardless of what challenges arise, technology will only be as effective as its users’ intentions and aspirations. It is this critical, creative, and practical understanding of technology that captures the ethos of the New Liberal Arts. This ethos has inspired our community of learners to be simultaneously future-focused and grounded in our deep roots, mindful of the present moment’s needs.

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Hiram recognizes gifts that transform campus this Giving Tuesday

You’ve heard of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, but what about Giving Tuesday?

Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Giving Tuesday connects diverse groups of individuals, communities, and organizations for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving. Now in its seventh year, Giving Tuesday has become the kick-off of the charitable season, which for many is a time to focus on holiday and end-of-year giving.

During this time of being thankful, the campus community would like to recognize a handful of our recent donors, and how their gifts have helped to advance and transform campus.

In February of 2017, Hiram College announced its Tech and Trek Program, the first 1:1 Apple mobile program for a four-year college or university in Ohio thanks to a gift of $2.1 million gift from alumnus and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dean Scarborough ’77 and his wife, Janice Bini. Beginning in August of 2017 all full-time traditional students are presented with iPad Pro bundles.

Following the lead gift, several other donors have contributed generously to the program to ensure that wireless technology is functioning at high speed throughout campus; that the majority of classrooms on campus have 21 st -century technology; and that charging stations (thanks to Marty ’64 and Marilyn Clague) are strategically placed throughout campus. The Paul and Maxine Frohring Foundation made possible the extension of Tech & Trek to the James H. Barrow Biological Field Station—installing wireless connectivity, upgrading classrooms and more. Thanks to gifts from Steve and Pam West ’67/’67 and Randy and Shari Dearth ’86/’85, a Tech & Trek space was added to the first floor of the library. Additionally, Tech & Trek upgrades have been made to many of the historical homes on campus thanks to donors Sheryl Buckley ’68, John and Sylvia Yankey, Rich and Sue Pejeau ’66/’66, and Kevin and Kristen McMahon ’74/’74.

In addition to upgrading technology, other renovations have been made to a number of the historical homes as well. For example, thanks to the generosity of the Peskin family, John and Pat Zimmerman, and Norman ’61 and Hanna Kelker improvements have been made to the Garfield Robbins Zimmerman Home. Work included electrical and support work, fresh paint to both the interior and exterior of the house, sanded and re-stained floors, and a complete porch repair.

But improvements haven’t been limited to the indoors. A multitude of outdoor projects took place this summer as well including new landscaping and the placement of a bench in front of the Kennedy Center, courtesy of the Class of 1968.

Perhaps of most interest to students is that several updates have been made to the residence halls.  Thanks to a gift from Larry and Joyce DeYoung ‘69/’69 upgrades were made to many of the lounges. In addition, gifts have made possible restroom renovations, the purchase of new furniture, and the addition of several outdoor patios.

And thanks to a lead gift from Walter S. Peckinpaugh, Jr., ’65 and Marilyn B. Peckinpaugh, the tennis courts on lower campus were completely renovated, which included resurfacing and fencing the area.

A sampling of other improvements to campus made possible by donor support include:

• Placement of a fence around the baseball field thanks to a lead gift from Doug ’82 and Julie Gruber.
• Pavement of parking lots on campus thanks to Mark ’60 and Anne Logan, and Bruce ’71 and Karen Shylo.
• Maintenance and upgrades to the Love Writing House thanks to Steve and Jackie Love.
• Creation of the John M. Watson Music Laboratory thanks to Bob and Maggie Watson.
• Improvements to the Northwoods Field Station thanks to Hank ’80 and Julie Schellenger.
• Donation of new vans and other campus vehicles thanks to Fred Martin ’64.
• Placement of I AM HIRAM billboard thanks to Debbie Abdalian-Thompson ’75

This Giving Tuesday, the Hiram College community is thankful for all who have impacted the College through gifts of money and time. You too can make a difference in preserving the Hiram legacy for generations to come by making a gift this Giving Tuesday. by Jenelle Bayus

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