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...
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...Subscribe by Email
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