21st Century Educational Technology: Friend or Foe?
W. Warren Binford, Willamette University College of Law
This poster presentation provides a brief introduction to 21st century educational technologies including adaptive learning systems, simulated realities, online content delivery, gaming, and digital scholarship. It asks whether emerging learning technology is on a collision course with the intensely personal, face-to-face approach inherent in clinical legal education or whether digital resources will change legal education so completely that virtually all law professors will be engaging clinical methods by the mid-21st century.
Beyond the Classroom: Teaching Context to Better Serve Clients
Laurie S. Kohn, George Washington University Law School
Jane K. Stoever, Seattle University School of Law
Clinical legal education moves students from the classroom into the role of lawyer, where students are presented with clients in crisis and the law in action. Our project gives students out-of-the-classroom experiences to expose them to the broader social, cultural, and political contexts of their clients’ lives, communities, and the legal system. These experiences help students anticipate clients’ legal and non-legal needs, give students tools for critiquing the systems within which they operate, provide community legal education, enhance and supplement students’ cases and class work, and further connect them to what it means to provide client-centered public interest legal services.
Community Economic Development Law Clinic Research Engagement