Category: Teaching
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How students think about AI
by Beth McMurtrie, Chronicle of Higher Education Full article linked here. Excerpts below. “A double-edged sword” Leo Wu spends a lot of time thinking about AI. A senior at Minerva University, Wu runs AI Consensus, a student organization focused on the responsible use of artificial intelligence in education. Recently Wu reached out to tell me…
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Campus museums and collections offer a wealth of learning and community engagement opportunities
By Mike Desoto Full article available here. Excerpts below. … These campus museums and collections house an incredibly wide and deep range of materials and artifacts across many disciplines. They play a crucial role in the student experience, and not just for art or history students. Curators of these collections often take bold risks and…
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Elaborative Interrogation as a Reading Comprehension Strategy
Edu-Snippets JIM HEWITT AND NIDHI SACHDEVAMAR 9 How can elaborative interrogation be used to improve reading comprehension? Elaborative interrogation is an active learning strategy in which learners are prompted to answer “how” and “why” questions about material they are studying. For example, a student studying Hamlet might ask themselves, “Why does Hamlet contemplate the nature of existence?”…
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Misinterpreting the point of classroom discussion
Eugene O’Neill on Convincing People How I misinterpreted the point of classroom discussions when I was a student, and what I have learned since. JAMES M. LANGMAR 12Full article is available on Substack. Excerpts below. As I have mentioned in this space before, during the late 1980s, all students in the College of Arts and…
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BCLT Services for Students
Now is a good time to remind students of the academic resources available to support their academic goals. Available at the BCLT Sunday-Thursday, 6-10pm: Writing Assistants, Quantitative Tutors, Academic Peer Mentors. Students can schedule appointments via the Penji App. “Research shows that students who work with peers become more capable and confident writers, and students often…