Category: Teaching
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Dec 5 Webinar- Principles of Anti-Racist Community Engagement
Webinar hosted by Campus Compact on December 5th, “Principles of Anti-Racist Community Engagement” with speaker, Roopika Risam, Ph.D.. The webinar will be a combination of large-group and smaller breakout room discussions. Webinar: Principles of Anti-Racist Community Engagement Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 Time: 9:30-11:00am Location: Virtually on Zoom Registration Link
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Student Use Cases for AI
Link to full article by Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick September 25, 2023 Generative AI tools and the large language models (LLMs) they’re built on create exciting opportunities and pose enormous challenges for teaching and learning. After all, AI can now be ubiquitous in the classroom; every student and educator with a computer and internet has…
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New Virtual Workshop Resource for Bowdoin Employees
Bowdoin has recently partnered with Academic Impressions, an organization specializing in professional development resources for higher education employees. While they provide a whole host of trainings on a variety of issues for staff and faculty, I am especially thrilled to share this as a resource because of the amount of workshops Academic Impressions has related to diversity,…
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3 Ways to Keep Your Students’ Attention by Matt Abrahams
Insights from “3 Ways to Keep Your Audience Focused During a Presentation” by Matt Abrahams, lecturer in organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot 1. Find opportunities for physical engagement “Where the body goes, the brain will follow,” says Abrahams.…
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Interested in a Fall Teaching Triangle?
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 for each participant over the course of a semester and meet to discuss what they learn…