November 7, 2024 Teaching in Teams Reading Time: 5 minutes At Conestoga, some Faculty may use Teams to teach their courses. This post aims to support you in the initial stages of learning to use... Categories Online Synchronous/Teaching/Tech For Teaching/Zoom or Teams
October 29, 2024 Active Learning in your Tech or Software Lessons Reading Time: 10 minutes Teaching technical courses on software, programming, web development, and design can effectively leverage active learning. Active learning emphasizes building firsthand, practical experience and gradually fostering... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching/Tech for New Faculty/Tech For Teaching
October 9, 2024 Understanding your Students’ Conceptions of Assessment for a Better Learning Experience Reading Time: 7 minutes Have you ever noticed that some students approach assessments with excitement and curiosity, while others seem overwhelmed with anxiety or disengaged? The way students perceive... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Challenges/Assessment Quick Guides/Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment
September 26, 2024 STEM, AI, and You Reading Time: 5 minutes Where are you in your journey to bring the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into your STEM-related teaching? And how will AI impact your teaching... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Artificial Intelligence/Teaching
June 25, 2024 Teaching Tool: Using Intelligent Agents to Foster Student Success Reading Time: 2 minutes Learn how you can use the eConestoga tool Intelligent Agents to support your teaching. Categories Communicating With Students/eConestoga/Teaching
June 13, 2024 “So, what do you think?” Using Think-Pair-Share to Engage ALL Students Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the simplest ways to engage your students is the tried-and-tested teaching strategy called ‘Think-Pair-Share’. If you are newer to teaching, then this should... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Collaboration/Group Work/Teaching
April 12, 2024 Submit and Adjust Final Grades Reading Time: 3 minutes Review steps for submitting final grades Categories Assessment/Teaching/Tech For Teaching
April 3, 2024 Pre-Assessments in Lesson Planning Reading Time: 2 minutes Wondering what students already know about a topic and how this informs our lesson planning? This post will provide a short explanation as to why... Categories Concept Mapping/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching
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
February 23, 2024 The Evolving Field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots Reading Time: 13 minutes In this post, we’ll explore what generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are and try to understand how we’ve gotten to this point in AI technology... Categories AI and Teaching/Artificial Intelligence/Getting Started with AI/Teaching
