Ryan Hazen
Advocating human community in education during the age of technology.
making technology invisible.
Teaching and learning is about content and context, not tests and tech. We evolved to learn alongside our teachers as part of a close-knit community. Correctly applied, modern tools can help us rediscover our roots and reawaken the social creatures we’ve been all along.
A few presentations
TedX - Helena - 2018
Why careful application of technology in the learning environment is both a step forward and a step backward for society, and why that’s a good thing.
MountainMoot - Virtual - 2021
Discussion of essential technology infrastructure for education presented as a demonstration of active student engagement via Zoom using Wooclap.
MootGlobal - Barcelona - 2023
Anatomy lesson of an LMS gradebook wrapped in a discussion of the pedagogical principles of backward design applied to grading strategy.
other EdTech related STUFF...
Northwest Managers of Educational Technology (NWMET)
Conference Director, President,
Vice President
2017-2021
NWMET is a consortium of educational technologists from across the pacific northwest. NWMET hosts an annual conference that rotates between Member states. Review a presentation from 2018 for details.
Moodle Certified Educator, MEC Facilitator, Particularly Helpful Moodler
Moodle Evangelist
2012-Present
The Moodle Educator Certification was created in 2019 to give educators a place to certify their skills in Moodle LMS. Many dedicated Moodlers worked together to create and deploy the MEC program.
MiClassroom was a three-year Washington Foundation funded grant to explore the costs and benefits of a 1:1 iPad deployment at Carroll College. Review the 2018 Deck, the 2017 report, and the 2016 report for details.
A makerspace, lightboard studio, communication lab, and more in an academic library setting. See a quick video demonstrating the capabilities of the lightboard studio as used by teachers from multiple disciplines.
transformative technology
education experience
10
Years as Chief Mootineer of the MountainMoot, the biggest little EdTech Conference in the intermountain west.
8
Years as a higher education instructional technologist, pedagogical coach, classroom designer, and LMS administrator.
4
Years as an 8th grade teacher in a public school, including the pilot and implementation of a 1:1 iPad paperless classroom.
Degrees
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North carolina
Bachelor of Arts in English, Minor in Creative Writing
2006
Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana
Master of Education, Curriculum & Instruction
2011
Other interests...