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We provide tips for helping psychology faculty effectively seek, select, and place new technology into pedagogical practice. We also provide tips to help psychology departments position themselves for a future that includes teaching technologies that have not yet been created. Instead of discussing today’s top innovations in teaching (which may lose favor in a few years), and instead of predicting future trends in teaching technology (which is nearly impossible, given the pace of innovation), we provide psychology faculty and their departments with strategies for keeping up with teaching technology, no matter what form future technologies may take. These tips will serve educators over the long run, even as today’s technological advances become obsolete.

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Ten Timeless Tips for Keeping on Top of Teaching Technology

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