Topic: Helping Student Develop Conceptual and Computational Thinking Skills
Tool: Miro
Date: Friday 9/23/2022 Note Updated Date
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Featured Facilitator: Jennifer Terrell (INFO)
Location: Luddy Hall, Room 4063
Description: Dr. Terrell will lead a discussion of how Miro can be used to help students dig into an idea in detail. Concept mapping in Miro can be used to help push students to explore subtopics, understand relationships, and organize thoughts in a logical and systematic way. Dr. Terrell will demonstrate how she has used Miro in her teaching practice to help students develop conceptual thinking skills, as well as how it can be used hone computational thinking skills.
Download a calendar invite here – https://events.iu.edu/siceiub/event/680807
- placed learning objectives in your syllabus,
- provided students with a course packet, and
- spent weeks lecturing and providing lab or discussion activities related to what is going to be on the exam.
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- Incorporate all four learning preferences (Visual, Aural, Read/write, Kinesthetic) into your instruction (e.g., in materials, lessons, class activities, and assignments) https://youtu.be/855Now8h5Rs (go to 9:46)
- Break information into small steps or “chunks” https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/15451100 (Chapter 2; available via interlibrary loan).
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- Add in “brain breaks” through intentional pauses and activities https://tophat.com/blog/brain-breaks/
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- Allow students to choose from different types of problems to extend concepts
- Meet with individuals or small groups of students to reteach and reinforce a class concept
- Allow more time by having flexible deadlines for projects: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/deadlines-real-world
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- Break down a complex problem into small, manageable steps https://www.learning.com/blog/decomposition-in-computational-thinking/
- Go beyond simple factual questions and explore how concepts connect
Upcoming Workshops:
Topic: Supporting Student Engagement in Online Courses
Tool: Inscribe
Date: Wednesday 9/28/2022
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Featured Facilitator: Saúl Blanco (CSCI)
Location: Myles Brand Hall , Room 100A
Description: Discuss ways to increase engagement in asynchronous online courses for online courses with a diverse range of students. Approaches include optional synchronous courses that allow student to connect that are recorded for students who are able to attend and the use of Inscribe for conversation, as well as the strategic scheduling and use of office hours.
Topic: Examining Different Approaches to Using Video in Your Courses
Date: Tuesday, 10/11/2022
Time: 2PM – 3PM
Featured Facilitator: Meghan Porter (CHEM)
Location: School of Public Health Room 154* Tentative
Description: Dr. Porter used Kaltura Quizzes in her 160-person flipped class since Fall 2018 (pre-covid). She transitioned to using PlayPosit for both her 700 person (350/section) and 160 in person courses in Fall 2021. She will discuss the advantages students experienced from her course transformation, demonstrate how she quickly developed videos assessments, as well as discuss the differences between using PlayPosit and Kaltura. Feel free to identify a video clip you may have saved in Kaltura, that you would like to transform with PlayPosit during this session.
Download a calendar invite here – https://events.iu.edu/siceiub/event/680796
Topic: Using Virtual Portfolios to Celebrate Student Work
Tools: Zion
Date: Friday, 10/21/2022
Time: 2:30PM – 3:30PM
Location: Zoom
Featured Facilitator: Logan Paul (INFO)
In this workshop Senior Lecturer Logan Paul will discuss Zion, a tool that he developed during the pandemic, that allows students to present their work in a virtual format. He will describe the benefits of using this tool and explore the ways courses can use the tool to celebrate and share summative achievements. Faculty can also use this tool as part of their teaching portfolio to demonstrate what student success looks like in their classes.
Download a calendar invite here – https://go.iu.edu/4wSq
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