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Developing Confident and Responsible Writers in the Digital World
Teaching and learning in the digital world brings the dual possibilities of promise and peril. Digital tools and expanded connectivity afford instructors a wide array of instructional possibilities. Learners benefit from access to information and the ability to more easily collaborate with peers. These affordances are balanced by several constraints as well. One particular challenge is ensuring...
Rethinking Student Assignments | Part 1: A Study in Communication
One of the hardest things for many instructors to do is to create a non-paper-based or multi-modal assignment for their students. We get so much of our information from videos, podcasts, websites, and other multimodal sources, so it’s only natural that instructors would want to help students understand these communication modes critically. There are appealing assignment options out there like...
One Word Entry Into Class Discussion
Many of us have been there. You’re trying to facilitate a discussion over Zoom, you pose a question, you wait the appropriately awkward amount of time and …crickets. Perhaps students aren’t sure what they want to say — it may be that they are tired — or they could just be shy. Whatever the issue, discussion falls flat when students don’t engage. Drive-Thru Pedagogy Blog Pick up something...
Building Your Course Around Design Principles
When you’re designing a new course or doing a major syllabus revision, where do you typically start? If you’re like me (and probably most instructors), you begin with the content. What are the key concepts, ideas, and understandings that I want students to take away from my course? Then, lay them out on the calendar and identify readings, activities, and assessments. Drive-Thru Pedagogy Blog...
Two Channels are Better Than One
An easy-to-implement approach to content delivery is found in the Instructional Design (ID) theory known as Dual Coding. Don’t worry, no HTML here. This is coding for educators. Dual Coding theory points to linguistic and nonlinguistic representations of information as part of human cognition. In other words, people learn information through verbal and nonverbal avenues. Drive-Thru Pedagogy Blog...
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Educators live in a world of competing priorities. We know the stress that accompanies our responsibilities for preparing lessons, providing students with feedback, designing assessments, maintaining office hours, and so much more. We need to motivate students while managing the practical aspects of running a class. As educators, we want to be effective and efficient. These are constant...
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