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
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
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 It’s that time of year. I can’t help but be poised at the edge of my seat, imagining teachers and students entering their classroom space for the first time. I overheard a veteran professor yesterday, “I know I will feel better once… Read More
By Julie Schell (Reposted 5/1/14 What is Peer Instruction?…in 2 mins) Peer Instruction is a researched based highly engaged instructional strategy developed by Professor Eric Mazur in the 1990’s at Harvard University. It is implemented best in a flipped learning format, where students anticipate and… Read More
Greetings Ithaca College Colleagues and best wishes for a fun and productive Spring 2016 semester. What do you call a blog that is really a webinar? Name it what you will, but this first Threads blog is just that, and posted for your viewing. On… Read More
By Judith Ross-Bernstein “In a FUBU universe, students become the primary agents of their own learning by providing feedback and creating artifacts that emerge out of their own experience (“by us”) for their own learning benefit (“for us”).” (Silva, 2015) Silva shares a distinctly student-centered… Read More
By Patricia B. Spencer I believe the best of learning happens in the messiest of circumstances—on the bridge between the classroom and the community, in a context of irreverent inquiry and shifting roles between teacher and learner, in a relationship that has to be nimble… Read More
By Kathryn Caldwell “My mind is being blown. I thought this only existed in Photoshop!” exclaimed my eleven-year old daughter, Josie as we reached the 4700-foot peak. Surrounded by 360 degree views of purple-blue layers of mountains, we (my husband, daughter and I) were only… Read More
