by Dr. Kelly Dietz In her final of three podcasts, Dr. Dietz discusses the need to make explicit “practice space” for students in their learning. She shares how she employs a class blog to encourage a deeper engagement with course materials and a more collaborative… Read More
By Dr. Kelly Dietz In her second of three podcasts for Threads, Dr. Kelly Dietz, Department of Politics, discusses teaching students to learn how to engage with ideas different from their own as a way to help them make meaningful connections to the subject matter. By making… Read More
This is the first of three audio blog posts on Learning to Learn, by Dr. Kelly Dietz, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics at Ithaca College. In this segment, Kelly questions the assumptions we make about how our students learn and offers an example of an experiential learning exercise she… Read More
This week’s shared blog post, Learning to Learn, by Filipa Pajevic (1/13/17), from Teaching and Learning @ McGill University, serves as a detailed introduction to the idea of learning to learn- how to help students to “study deeply and immerse oneself in the subject at… Read More
This week’s shared blog post from Teaching and Learning @ McGill University, serves as a thoughtful introduction to the important learning objective and common teaching challenge, linking theory to practice. It also sets the context for next week’s threads@cfe video interview with Dr. Radio Cremata,… Read More
by Dr. Christina Moylan This final Blog Post builds on the discussions in my first and second posts, and highlights the power of the synergistic use of more than one student engagement technique simultaneously. This strategy can be particularly effective in promoting significant learning with… Read More
Welcome back everyone. Best wishes for a healthy and productive Spring 2017 semester. With enthusiasm, we introduce this semester’s first Threads entry by Dr. Christina Moylan. Christina, alongside her cross-disciplinary peers, participated in a year-long course design faculty learning community. Her entry kicks off a… Read More
Recommended Reads by Derek Bruff In his 5/26/16 post entitled, Class Time Reconsidered: Flipping the Literature Class, Bruff gives yet another lens to consider what flipping a class might look like… …”Reading a text or commenting on a blog post are usually activities we ask… Read More
By Judith Ross-Bernstein Recently, a compelling study by Steuer and Dresel, A Constructive Error Climate as an Element of Effective Learning Environments (2015) came by my desk. It was in my to read file when I spotted a blog and a tool developed by Josh… Read More
by Judith Ross-Bernstein Looking across classrooms, it is common to see laptops open, screen lights illuminating several student faces as they take notes, fingers dancing across keyboards at breakneck speed. Other students sit alongside the glow and movement of their peers, with pen and paper poised… Read More
