Category: Teaching
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Webinar, April 24, 2pm: Creating a Classroom Climate that Supports Student Engagement in Active Learning
Sponsored by the MIT Teaching and Learning Lab Active learning classrooms ask students to engage with coursework differently than traditional classrooms. Not only do they ask students to invest more effort into directly engaging with the content, they often require students to work collaboratively with their peers while learning. The risk of “getting it wrong”…
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Want to be inspired in your teaching? Participate in a Teaching Triangle
Interested in a Spring 2024 Teaching Triangle. Complete the 4-minute interest form here by April 1. The Teaching Triangles program provide faculty an opportunity to gain new insight into their teaching and students’ learning through a non-evaluative, formative process of reciprocal class visits and reflection. The three people in a triangle agree to visit one class session…
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Stop Assuming Introverted Students Aren’t Passionate About Your Class
Instead Embrace—and Reward—Their Less-Animated Behavior by Kai Krautter, Anabel Büchner, and Jon M. Jachimowicz February 15, 2024 Full article available here. Excerpts below. … Our research shows that an individual’s level of extroversion shapes how they express passion, and thus how they’re perceived by others. Extroverted people engage in more behaviors that are commonly associated with…
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Upcoming AI Events
Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Special Series on Generative AI: Designing Assignments & Class Activities with Generative AI March 7, 4-5pm, Zoom Register on the CBB Pedagogy Matters web site. Pre-Work Guiding questions: Bonus article- AI detectors don’t work. Teaching with AI Workshop Series Mondays March 11-April 8, 1-2pm Led by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, authors of Teaching…
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Assistive Technology Tip: Try Word Online to Transcribe Audio Recordings
Did you know that Word Online can transcribe audio recordings? The transcribe feature uses artificial intelligence to convert speech to a text transcript and can identify each speaker individually. After uploading a recorded conversation or interview, you can revisit parts of the recording by playing back the time stamped audio and edit the transcription to…