Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) Blog
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Try IT Event Series Continues: Explore Classroom Polling
Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) is continuing its event series Try IT: Academic Tech for Active Learning in Autumn 2023. This event series explores tools, techniques, and tips for engaging students in the classroom, with a special focus on how digital tools...
Digital Pedagogy and Critical Pedagogy: Understanding Critical Pedagogy
The author wishes to thank ATS instructional designers Michael Hernandez and Joe Olivier for their excellent feedback and suggestions, which helped him to improve this article. He remains solely responsible for any errors or omissions therein. Introduction: Series...
Seeking Early and Midterm Student Feedback
If you teach at UChicago, you are probably familiar with how students can provide formal feedback on the courses you teach towards the end of the quarter. The University Registrar administers the Course Feedback process, and you are able to add customized questions,...
Digital Tools for Teaching Writing, Part 1: Writing as Process
This three-part series explores a wide range of digital tools and pedagogical strategies that support writing instruction. Over these three posts, we will consider a diverse array of writing-related goals and instructional contexts from across the disciplines. This...
Five Tips for Using Canvas as a Student
UChicago Canvas is your one-stop shop for accessing and organizing your classes as a student at UChicago, but are you using it to its full potential? Ensuring that you’re comfortable and familiar with the platform will allow you to get the most out of your courses and...
Beginning the New Academic Year with Accessible and Inclusive Digital Syllabi
This post offers a pedagogical and technical grounding for accessible and inclusive syllabus (re-)design using digital tools. To explore these topics and tools at greater length, consider registering for the upcoming ATS workshop Accessible and Inclusive Digital...
Cultural Issues and the Pursuit of Academic Integrity (Combating Academic Dishonesty, Part 8)
Author’s Note: This is the latest installment in an ongoing series concerned with issues of academic integrity, particularly as they relate to classroom technologies. To view the previous installments, please see the Academic Integrity tag on our website. ATS...
Explore Multiple Approaches to Generative AI and Social Annotation with Fellow Educators through Hypothesis Academy
Looking for a way to explore new teaching approaches on a busy schedule? UChicago’s partner for social annotation, Hypothesis, offers an opportunity to read about, discuss, and design using new pedagogical ideas on an asynchronous basis that allows you to participate...
Initial Pedagogical Reflections from Spring Panel “Teaching in the Age of AI”
As we prepare for a new academic year, you may find yourself thinking about how to move forward in a teaching and learning environment that’s been altered and complicated by the widespread availability of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. To aid instructors in this...
Promote Inclusion with Small Changes Enabled by UChicago Teaching Tools
“Any approach or tool you use in class can be viewed through the lens of inclusion. Ask yourself: “Who is being included and who is being excluded by the choices I make? Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy, Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College...
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