July 8, 2024 Explaining Content Effectively Reading Time: 4 minutes Thanks to Nancy Nelson, PhD. Have you ever struggled to explain a complex concept to someone new to your field? You’re not alone. Even experts... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/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 12, 2024 Practicing Student-Centered Assessments in Contemporary Classrooms Reading Time: 4 minutes Contemporary classroom assessment emphasizes ongoing feedback, student involvement, and diverse assessment methods to enhance learning outcomes. It reflects a shift from traditional testing and grading... Categories Assessing Learning/Student Focused Assessment
June 3, 2024 Critical Thinking with AI: Two Approaches Reading Time: 6 minutes Two strategies to help students practice critical thinking using AI in the classroom. Categories AI/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching
May 30, 2024 Generative AI: Ban it or bring it on? One Professor’s Perspective Reading Time: 4 minutes Michael Quartermain, School of Business, reflects on the benefits and drawbacks of AI adoption at the college. Categories AI/Faculty Services
May 30, 2024 AI-Adapting Activities and Assesments: Part 2 of 2 Reading Time: 7 minutes Ideas for adapting activities and assessments for the conditional or open use of AI Categories AI/AI and Assessment/Teaching
May 28, 2024 Content-Based Bridge-Ins Reading Time: 9 minutes Many of you are likely already familiar with the BOPPPS framework for lesson planning. While BOPPPS is not the only way to plan a lesson... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching
May 22, 2024 Understanding Socio-Culturally Responsive Assessments Reading Time: 3 minutes This post was co-authored by Dr. Monsurat Raji and Dr. David Baidoo-Anu, Assessment of Learning Consultants. As postsecondary schools continue to educate a more diverse... Categories Assessment Quick Guides/Diverse Identities
May 22, 2024 What Does it Mean to be an Intercultural Educator? Reading Time: 3 minutes Diversity is a fact of life in any Canadian postsecondary setting. In addition to diversity in such areas as age, gender, and educational background, Conestoga... Categories Intercultural Awareness/Reflective Practice/Teaching/Teaching International Students
April 17, 2024 Teaching with Sign Language Interpreters (SLIs) or Interpreters in the Classroom Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction As of 2021, there are approximately 382,700 deaf and 3,827,000 hard of hearing people in Canada (Canadian Association of the Deaf, n.d.; Malkowski, 2021).... Categories Accessible Learning/Diverse Identities/Diversity/Equity and Inclusion/Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
