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Promote AI-Discerning Students in the New Academic Year, Pt 3: Experiment with (and Scrutinize) AI Together
"A computing system that permits the asking of only certain kinds of questions, that accepts only certain kinds of 'data,' and that cannot even in principle be understood by those who rely on it, such a computing system has effectively closed many doors that were open...
Use the New Files Interface in Your Canvas Course Site
Canvas has recently debuted a new interface in the Files section of course sites. This interface is more intuitive and makes it easier for you to carry out commonly used functions when managing your course files. When you click on the Files tab, you will no longer see...
Enhance Student Learning with Poll Everywhere: Faculty Perspectives
Introduction Poll Everywhere has emerged as a versatile tool across classrooms of different disciplines at the University of Chicago. This blog post presents feedback from a group of instructors who shared how they are leveraging this technology to enhance classroom...
Building Classroom Trust with Technology: Connect to Your Students with Video Announcements
Introduction to This Blog Series Few aspects of teaching are as vital to your course’s success as classroom trust. For your students to remain engaged with your subject matter, they need to know that you see them as people and that you’re genuinely invested in their...
Specifications Grading: A Powerful Way to Reflect What Students Learn
Linda Nilson argues that our current grading system is fundamentally broken—it fails to reflect what students actually learn, burdens faculty with time-consuming and subjective decisions, and fuels stress and grade disputes. In Specifications Grading (2014), she...
Promote AI-Discerning Students in the New Academic Year, Pt 2: Start with a Conversation
Faculty Interviewer: “How attractive, as a student, is it if all of these readings you get in a class you could, yourself, just put them into a podcast and listen to a five or ten minute podcast rather than reading the papers?” Undergraduate Student: “Oh, it’s very...
Support Your Students’ Well-Being with LinkedIn Learning Courses
You may be familiar with LinkedIn Learning through the technical courses it offers – everything from Excel to R to prompt engineering. But there’s more to LinkedIn Learning than just technical know-how. It also offers hundreds of courses on personal development –...
Maximize the Accessibility of Your Canvas Course Site: A Step-by-Step Guide
Making your Canvas course site accessible may seem like a formidable task, but it doesn’t have to be. In this post, we lay out the steps you can take as you’re building your course site to maximize the accessibility of your digital materials. By following these steps,...
Promote AI-Discerning Learners in the New Academic Year, Pt 1: Developing Judgment for Technology Use
“If we are going to responsibly and responsively change the course of the Intelligence Revolution, which ethical system or systems are best suited to understanding or evaluating its dynamics…in environments shaped by systems of domination not through coercion but...
Faculty Success Story: Critical Readings through Podcasting with Melih Levi
This is the second part of a projected three-part series featuring UChicago faculty and instructors who have used podcasting in the classroom to promote deeper student engagement. Read Part 1 of the series here. Part 3 is forthcoming. Keeping students focused in...
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