Track 3: Teaching with Technology: Clinicians + Law Librarians = Innovation

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Technology assisted teaching, which includes flipped
classrooms, hybrid courses, synchronous or asynchronous fully online courses,
has become all the rage in law schools as of late.  However, there are a myriad of ways that
clinical professors can use technology in easy, innovative ways to enhance
their learning outcomes, achieve their learning outcomes in more engaging ways,
or impart particular skills.  Teaching
with technology is indeed the new normal and will continue to be the future normal.

Law librarians are uniquely equipped to aid clinicians
with designing instructional techniques that incorporate technology and achieve
learning outcomes or impart skills in new ways.
Many law librarians have studied instructional design and teaching in
library school, taught hands-on experiential research courses, or taken online
courses as part of a graduate school curriculum.  Law librarians working with clinicians are a
logical and workable paring to help innovate clinical teaching with technology.
This session will present two examples of how law
librarians, at two different law schools are helping clinicians at their
schools incorporate technology into their teaching.  At Suffolk University Law School, working
with a law librarian, two clinicians incorporated technologies into their
teaching pedagogy and supervision plans and have updated their syllabi for the
2014-2015 academic year.  At CUNY School
of Law, an embedded law librarian works with the Dean of Clinical Programs to
identify and assist in the introduction of law practice technologies and
digital assessment tools to aid in the evaluation of student work in
simulations and live client interactions.