April 2, 2024 Start, Continue, or End Learning with AI Reading Time: 5 minutes Use AI selectively and in only part of your learning activity or assessment to foster student engagement while building genAI literacy skills. Categories Active Learning and Engagement/AI and Learning/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching
March 27, 2024 Controlled, Semi-Controlled, and Free Practice Reading Time: 3 minutes This post describes how controlled, semi-controlled, and free practice activities can support and develop student knowledge, skills, and confidence throughout your classroom lesson. Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning
March 20, 2024 Engage ALL Students with the Questions You Ask Reading Time: 6 minutes As teachers, we all have one thing in common: we like to ask our students questions. The questions might ask to recall some important information... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Collaboration/Communicating With Students
March 15, 2024 Active Learning with AI Reading Time: 10 minutes Active learning ideas and tips for use using generative AI chatbots like Copilot Categories Active Learning and Engagement/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Teaching
March 12, 2024 Leveraging your slide deck, Part 2: Engaging students in the classroom Reading Time: 5 minutes A slide deck can be the focus point of a lesson, presenting key information related to the week’s learning outcomes. A slide deck, however, is... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching
March 7, 2024 Exploring the Complex Ideas of Teachers and Teaching in South Asian Academic Culture Reading Time: 4 minutes By Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Consultant, Teaching and Learning South Asia has a collectivist society, which is a fascinating tapestry of interconnectedness where individual threads weave... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Build Community/Communicating With Students/Diversity/Intercultural Awareness/Teaching International Students
February 21, 2024 Encouraging International Students to Take Notes in the Classroom Reading Time: 3 minutes Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Consultant, Teaching & Learning Notetaking has been one of the traditional and effective ways for post-secondary students to learn. However, as technology... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching/Teaching International Students/Theory and Practice
February 13, 2024 Leveraging your slide deck, Part 1: Scaffolding assessments for student success Reading Time: 5 minutes A slide deck can be the focus point of a lesson, presenting key information related to the week’s learning outcomes. A slide deck, however, is... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Improving Assessments/Lesson and Course Planning/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching
February 6, 2024 Peer Feedback: Grading Tool versus Assessment Tool Reading Time: 3 minutes Peer feedback is a powerful classroom assessment tool that you can leverage to support students’ learning (Patchan et al, 2015; Yu & Schunn, 2023). Particularly... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Collaboration/Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment
January 25, 2024 Active Learning Ideas Reading Time: 11 minutes The ideas here are in alphabetical order. This is not an exhaustive list of active learning ideas and many of these ideas may be adapted... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching