Workshop

Designing questions for student-centered learning (I), at AMISA 2024 Educators' Conference, American School of Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday, March 21, 2024

Questions are the heart of evaluating and engaging students. In this workshop, we will work individually and in pairs on a case study to learn best practices for developing effective questions.

After participating in this workshop, participants will be able to
  • Evaluate questions and classify them according the levels of Bloom’s taxonomy
  • Revise questions to increase the level of Bloom’s taxonomy at which they engage students
  • Develop questions that more effectively engage students in a flipped-learning environment
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Student-centered learning with Perusall, at AMISA 2024 Educators' Conference, American School of Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Learning is a social experience — it requires interactivity. Most students learn best by engaging with content, reflecting on it, and engaging with their peers. Moving pre-class reading assignments to an asynchronous and self-paced environment improves completion rates of these assignments. Perusall, a free social learning platform, permits one to move online the information-transfer that normally takes place in a lecture and make this information transfer interactive. In addition, the platform promotes intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to learn. In this workshop we will demonstrate the...

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Peer Instruction, at Innovation in Teaching — Harvard Business Publishing; Curso Santander (online), Wednesday, January 10, 2024:
The basic goals of Peer Instruction are to encourage and make use of student interaction during lectures, while focusing students' attention on underlying concepts and techniques. The method has been assessed in many studies using standardized, diagnostic tests and shown to be considerably more effective than the conventional lecture approach to teaching. Peer Instruction is now used in a wide range of disciplines at the college and secondary level. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about Peer Instruction, serve as the "class" in which Peer Instruction is demonstrated,... Read more about Peer Instruction
Interactive Learning, online and in-person, at IAP Research Symposium on Innovative Leadership, Transforming Higher Education in the Digital Age, Cambridge, MA, Monday, June 19, 2023:

Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. The coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving some tasks to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. I will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense-making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. In addition, he will discuss how the use of an online platform can promote intrinsic and...

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Thinking about assessment, at Teaching Excellence Program Workshop with Master Teachers, Wednesday, February 22, 2023:

Why is it that stellar students sometimes fail in the workplace while dropouts succeed? One reason is that most, if not all, of our current assessment practices are inauthentic. Just as the lecture focuses on the delivery of information to students, so does assessment often focus on having students regurgitate that same information back to the instructor. Consequently, assessment fails to focus on the skills that are relevant in life in the 21st century. Assessment has been called the "hidden curriculum" as it is an important driver of students' study habits. Unless we rethink our...

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Interactive Learning, online and in-person, at IAP Research Symposium — Innovative Leadership: Transforming higher Education in the digital Age, Monday, June 20, 2022:
Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. The coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving some tasks to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. Eric Mazur will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense-making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. In addition, he will discuss how the use of an online platform can promote intrinsic and extrinsic... Read more about Interactive Learning, online and in-person
Transform your teaching with Perusall, at Waseda University, Tuesday, May 10, 2022:
Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. The coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving some tasks to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. Through Perusall, Eric Mazur will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense-making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. In addition, he will discuss how the platform promotes intrinsic and extrinsic... Read more about Transform your teaching with Perusall

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