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Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology
\"A wealth of good ideas\" for using technology in education, from increasing student engagement to managing hybrid and distance learning ( Teachers College Record).
How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the integrity of the students' work? These are some of the questions that instructors raise as technology becomes an integral part of the educational experience.
In Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology, award-winning instructors representing a wide range of academic disciplines describe their strategies for employing technology to achieve learning objectives. They include tips on using just-in-time teaching, wikis, clickers, YouTube, blogging, and GIS, to name just a few. An accompanying interactive website enhances the value of this innovative tool.
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Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers
Non-tenure-track lecturers and adjunct instructors face particular challenges at US colleges, including heavy teaching loads, lack of office space, little control over the selection of course topics or textbooks, and long commutes between jobs at two or more schools. Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers contains short, practice-oriented articles by experienced instructors that offer valuable teaching and career tips for balancing competing demands, addressing student issues, managing classrooms, and enhancing professional development.
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Quick Hits for Service-Learning
Service-learning, the integration of classroom instruction with community
service projects, is rapidly gaining momentum as a successful teaching and learning
strategy that benefits both students and their communities. Quick Hits for
Service-Learning presents more than 80 examples of innovative curricula, developed
by educators in a wide range of disciplines, designed to combine community service
with instruction and reflection. Seven chapters offer tips for classroom activities
that focus on the education of children and youth; civic awareness, engagement, and
activism; language, literature, and communication; global studies and local outreach
to exceptional populations; the study of history, the social sciences, and the arts;
business, industry, and the health sciences; and the teaching of research and other
tools of the trade. Brimming with ideas that busy faculty members can easily adapt
to their own classrooms, this book is a valuable reference for faculty new to the
field or seasoned practitioners looking for fresh ideas.
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Quick hits for teaching with technology
How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the integrity of the students' work? These are some of the questions that instructors raise as technology becomes an integral part of the educational experience. In Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology, award-winning instructors representing a wide range of academic disciplines describe their strategies for employing technology to achieve learning objectives. They include tips on using just-in-time teaching, wikis, clickers, YouTube, blogging, and GIS, to name just a few. An accompanying interactive website enhances the value of this innovative tool.
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Student Affairs 101
So as a good teacher you have bonded with some of your students despite arriving at class from your day job with only minutes to spare. These students are sharing their lives with you, their aspirations, their challenges … you may feel ill-equipped to respond to all of these issues. There are people on campus to help you; you just need to know where to look.
Student Affairs is an often misunderstood or unknown entity for adjuncts and lecturers who don’t spend their time on campus regularly and depending on how your were hired to teach, you may or may
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Attendance
Every faculty member faces the attendance issue at some point. Before entering the classroom to teach for the first time, you might actually pray that no students show up. But before too long, you realize they need to be there, in the seat (or at the computer), engaging with the material. So how do you get them to come to class? There are many answers and you must find what works for you and what you are comfortable with as an instructor.
Here are a few ideas that I have tried in my classes:
1. ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY! Think carefully before
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Active Learning Strategies
Active Learning is yet another higher education buzzword—the technique is nothing new or particularly cutting edge other than we now have something to call it when we engage students in their learning process rather than just dispensing our content knowledge directly into their heads (which, let’s be honest—doesn’t work). Active Learning can involve any of a host of tools you use to engage students with the material, assist students in learning to think critically, and helping students apply the material to their everyday life. These techniques are student or learner centered rather than instructor centered.
You can google
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Leading Classroom Discussions
For students, a poorly designed classroom discussion becomes no more than expressing opinions. At worst, classroom discussions can devolve into pockets of students expressing their opinions—with no supporting facts—while other students sit with glazed eyes or read their messages on their cell phones. A well-constructed and well-facilitated classroom discussion can provide students wonderful learning opportunities and to the instructor an opportunity to engage with students, encouraging critical thinking and inquiry.
Here are a few tips and tricks we have picked up:
Open-ended questions are vital to classroom discussion. Don’t ask yes or no questions.
Give students time to
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