👀 Observer’s Role – In Explainer-Observer style, the Observer isn’t just a spectator. Their role is to actively challenge the Explainer’s decisions. It’s not just about watching; it’s about engaging and understanding. #ActiveLearning #Collaboration

The first poster session of #smbe2023 is tonight, in person in 2 venues (Estense castle and San Paulo cloisters), and also online in gathertown. I’m presenting my work on an active learning activity I use to teach #evolution to undergraduate students. It is in Session 21- Science For Everybody: Education and Outreach in Molecular Biology and Evolution. Poster 17 in person and poster 1 within session 21 on Gather! #ActiveLearning #DBER #TeachingAndLearning

@sipho I think those things you listed are better termed "retrieval practice". #ActiveLearning is a method of teaching: "instructional activities involving students in doing things and thinking about what they are doing” Bonwell and Eison, 1991)

https://www.oaa.osu.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/nfo/2019/Active-Learning-article.pdf

https://web.s.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=887bdd92-b0d2-450b-b59e-e4d3db5e92b2%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=32708989&db=a9h

It's common to think of historical narratives as *mere* stories, and to think interpretation is something different. It's also common to treat #lectures and #ActiveLearning as opposites. So here's a simple #HistoryTeaching activity I developed to show how constructing a narrative is an interpretive act—and to draw students into the work of the lecture. https://bluebook.life/2023/04/22/storytelling-and-interpretation-a-classroom-activity/ #pedagogy #histodons

Teaching for Student Success has just dropped podcast Episode 28: Alternative Grading: Working With Students, Not Against Them. Please listen to Drs. Robert Talbert and David Clark discuss their efforts to ensure, as best they can, that grades reflect learning in their courses.

https://www.teachingforstudentsuccess.org

#inclusiveTeaching #sotl #higherEducation #education #activeLearning #learning #ungrading

One could lecture about #ElSistema, quoting the founder, summarizing news stories, playing key clips.

One could also ask students to research biographies of three key figures within the movement (5 minutes) and then surprise them with a make-a-skit request (10 minutes).

Which do YOU think will have more energy???

(okay, we also did the lecture/discussion part...)

#Teaching #skits #ActiveLearning

"... study after study demonstrates that students learn more from active learning than from lectures—and that the positive effects of active learning are especially pronounced for historically marginalized groups."

#ActiveLearning #pedagogy #highered

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/03/30/what-know-about-active-learning-and-college-student-identities

Very Exciting News! TFSS Episode 25 is featured in THE Inside Higher Ed's Student Success Daily News Update!

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/03/14/how-college-students-feel-about-active-learning-environments?mc_cid=34b60b8b11&mc_eid=43f56f3047

#higherEducation #activeLearning #studentSuccess

Thanks for sharing @musicayamor
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RT @musicayamor
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.500.11850/572828/feduc-07-956416.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y Ringing endorsement for PBL approach @patrickbijsmans finding that 'commitment to the instruction-first paradigm seems
fundamentally problematic' - interesting concept of 'productive failure' as a learning tool. #activelearning #problembasedlearning
https://twitter.com/musicayamor/status/1632780190001528834

Het verslag van het drukbezochte werkbezoek aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen over active learning classrooms is nu beschikbaar! Lezen? Ga naar https://edu.nl/ruejm #learning #activelearning #rug #universityofgroningen

Teaching for Student Success has just dropped Ep. 26: Ungrading in Practice: No Going Back with Dr. Sue Steiner.
Please listen to Dr. Steiner talk about her motivations to implement and her experiences with UNGRADING. This conversation may convince you that now is time to take the UNGRADING plunge.

https://www.teachingforstudentsuccess.org

#inclusiveTeaching #sotl #higherEducation #education #activeLearning #learning #ungrading

The latest episode of the Teaching for Student Success podcast: Louis Deslauriers, lead author of this 2019 paper "Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom". Students actually like active learning done well. The problem is that they will rate their learning in a well-delivered, fluent lecture more highly than a well-designed active-learning experience covering identical material. The paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821936116
#ActiveLearning

#womenprintmakers #womenwhomakebooks #library #archives #womenshistory #finepress #bookhistory #letterpress #letterpressprinting #printmaking #activelearning

New on the blog: The Perils of Lecture Class. https://derekbruff.org/?p=4011

This is a cross-post of my latest Intentional Learning newsletter, which has gotten some attention over on LinkedIn. #ActiveLearning #Lecturing #StudentPerspectives

SIG Learning Spaces van SURF bestaat al weer 4 jaar! Collega Michel Jansen heeft een mooi overzicht gemaakt van onze resultaten, bijeenkomsten en pubilcaties. Zie https://communities.surf.nl/learning-spaces/artikel/succesvolle-eerste-jaren-van-de-sig-learning-spaces #learning #activelearning #learningspaces #surf

Active learning classrooms can be powerful tools for institutional change - or just another misused technology. What makes the difference? At the blog today, a report on a research study that looks at those differences. #highereducation #activelearning

https://rtalbert.org/what-factors-help-active-learning-classrooms-succeed/

ML beyond big data is great, and as "AI" gets more attention, these areas hopefully also get a boost.

> "Standard computer prediction models require large data sets to produce accurate results, but there isn’t always sufficient information available for unusual events like rogue waves or disease outbreaks"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2353610-ai-could-predict-hurricanes-or-rogue-waves-from-minimal-data/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=technology

#ai #MachineLearning #activeLearning #datascience

I’m interested by the idea that eventually people and companies may have fine-tuned #ai assistants that learn by the suggestions that their users accept.

For example, a company could implicitly bake-in their in-house APIs and coding style into a model to be shared company-wide. I think that could be a pretty big productivity win.

#ActiveLearning

What I Wish My Instructor Knew: How Active Learning Influences the Classroom Experiences and Self-Advocacy of STEM Majors with ADHD and Specific Learning Disabilities https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.21-12-0329
See also: Is Active Learning Accessible? Exploring the Process of Providing Accommodations to Students with Disabilities https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.20-03-0049
& When ‘Rigor’ Targets Disabled Students https://archive.ph/swkO6
#STEMeducation #ActiveLearning #UDL #ADHD #Disability

The Infinite Index allows IR experiments that were never possible on finite datasets, and makes #ActiveLearning scenarios possible. However, many challenges remain: E.g., using recall-oriented measures is difficult, and near-duplicate images will require deduplication. (7/8)