The proliferation of generative AI such as ChatGPT has incited a season of pedagogical storms across college campuses, all too often leaving little dry land between panic and panacea. This workshop aims to harness these turbulent winds in attending to how generative AI might be used to teach writing in the college classroom. Understandably many …
Category: Ed Tech
Open Pedagogy Interventions while Teaching Remotely: Place-based and Digital Storytelling Projects
Outreach Many of our teaching and learning practices have shifted since we have been forced to only teach remotely. However, our pedagogy, assignments, and classroom projects can still have a meaningful impact by engaging resources and spaces outside of our virtual classrooms. In this workshop we will discuss Place-based and Digital Storytelling as pedagogical methods …
Ethical Approaches to Ed Tech
Digital learning technologies and internet based educational tools have the ability to open up our pedagogical practices and expand how learning can happen. It is crucial that as educators, when we decide to incorporate these tools, we are aware of the ethical implications of using digital tools.When deciding which tools to use and how it …
Video Production for Online Teaching
This workshop, courtesy of the PublicsLab at the Graduate Center, offers three videos: a βcrash courseβ approach to audio/video production; a primer on βCamera Angles and Lighting Techniquesβ and βAdvanced Audio Methods & Pedagogy.β This workshops was developed by Mike Mena (The Publics Lab) as part of the Teach@CUNY 2020 Summer Institute. βThe Crash Courseβ …
Series on Teaching with the CUNY Academic Commons (WordPress)
The CUNY Academic Commons, a WordPress teaching and learning platform based at the Graduate Center, is being used by faculty in a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses across CUNY. This workshop series will introduce the CUNY Academic Commons and Open Digital Pedagogy, and will go over the basics of teaching on the CUNY Commons. …
Using Online Polls to Promote Active Learning and Student Engagement
“Technology doesn’t inherently improve learning; it merely makes possible effective pedagogy, and only when it is consonant with an instructor’s educational philosophy and beliefs and reinforced by other components of the total course” (Beatty, 2004, p. 08) Have you ever introduced a new concept in your classroom and asked the students what they think …
Cultivating Student Participation Using Online Polls
You probably have had classes during which most of your students do not turn on their cameras, or you ask questions and no one responds, or moments that you try to promote participation and the same four or five students respond. As educators, we know how active engagement and participation are important in the studentβs …
Social Reading and Writing
Are you looking for ways to improve your studentsβ close reading skills or to kickstart class discussion by asking students to annotate readings online as a group before they come to class? Are you trying to find (new) strategies for peer review or collaborative writing projects? Or are you designing a hybrid or online course …
Demystifying Ed Tech
Too often, conversations about educational technology are rife with black and white thinking. On the one hand, some assume that the introduction of technology into pedagogy will destroy the relationship between student and teacher, resulting in distracted students with no ability to focus. On the other hand, some think that with the introduction of a …
Teaching with Social Media
This workshop was offered in Spring 2020 as an in-person workshop at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The workshop and materials were developed by Talisa Feliciano and InΓ©s VaΓ±Γ³ GarcΓa. All materials on this page and in the linked google folder are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 4.0 International Public License. Outreach Have you …
