Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog two faculty from The Instituto Cumbres and Prepa Anahuac, a private, K-12 school in Oaxaca, Mexico. In this blog, Diego González and Jorge Méndez write about their school’s journey to designing and building active learning classrooms for their students. Diego and Jorge also write our first bilingual Mosaic… Read more »
Entries by Tracey Birdwell
Building a K-12 Active Learning Environment at the The Instituto Cumbres and Prepa Anahuac
Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog two faculty from The Instituto Cumbres and Prepa Anahuac, a private, K-12 school in Oaxaca, Mexico. In this blog, Diego González and Jorge Méndez write about their school’s journey to designing and building active learning classrooms for their students. Diego and Jorge also write our first bilingual Mosaic… Read more »
Collaboration Café Research: How Faculty Teach in an Active Learning Classroom
Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog our Mosaic Research Assistant, Merve Basdogan. Merve is currently an Instructional Systems Technology PhD candidate at Indiana University. In this first blog of the year, Merve shares her recent research on one of our newly redesigned Mosaic classrooms: “Learning space is an agent that shapes the teaching… Read more »
Under the Palm Trees: Outdoor Learning on a Tropical Campus
Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog our Mosaic Research Intern, Tripp Harris. Tripp is currently a Learning Sciences PhD student at Indiana University. Tripp shares his take on the affordances of outdoor learning spaces at the University of Miami, and how other schools could innovate to make use of on-campus outdoor space for… Read more »
Teaching in the Pandemic Classroom: Creating and Developing Classroom Community Throughout the Semester
Concerns About Community Over the summer, I’ve been speaking with a lot of Indiana University instructors about what fall 2020 teaching will look like in, what I’ve been calling, the “pandemic classroom.” I’m defining the pandemic classroom as a fall (and, likely, spring) semester marked by mask-wearing, social distancing, fewer students in the classroom (and… Read more »
Catchbox Microphone for Classroom Discussion
As of the writing of this blog, I’m remaining at home and our campuses are quiet as we all practice social distancing. I’m missing the energy of each of Indiana University’s campuses and the buzz of students. One of the things helping me with the current state of uncertainty is working on the support we… Read more »
Student Evaluations and Your Active Learning Classroom
Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog, Suraj Uttamchandani, who has been our Mosaic Research Intern since 2016, and is currently a Learning Sciences doctoral candidate at Indiana University. Suraj shares his take on how instructors can use student evaluations to get feedback on their experiences not only in your course but also in your… Read more »
Become a 2020 – 2021 Mosaic Fellow, IU Bloomington Campus!
As we begin the new year, I’m excited to share that the call for 2020 – 2021 Mosaic Faculty Fellows is out for the IU Bloomington campus! The Mosaic Initiative will be accepting applications for the 10th cohort of Mosaic Fellows until March 23, 2020. Like previous cohorts of Mosaic Fellows, the next round of… Read more »
Teaching Tips: Hine Hall 118 and Hine Hall 231
We recently interviewed three instructors who taught in Hine Hall 118 and Hine Hall 231 located on the IUPUI campus, and asked them to share their perspectives on teaching in these unique learning spaces. In this blog, Fawzi BenMessaoud, Andy Harris, and Sarah Johnson, generously share their experiences engaging students in these similarly designed active… Read more »
Configuring your classroom: ES 1117
In the last few years, we have published several blogs devoted to showcasing room arrangements for our configurable classrooms, i.e. our Mosaic classrooms with movable tables and chairs. We compile those blogs and share them on the Classroom Spaces tab under the Resources section on the Mosaic website. Today I’ll add one more example to… Read more »