Category: Teach@CUNY 2020 Summer Institute

Building Student Input in Your Syllabus

As Bettina Love has noted, abolitionist teaching moves from, or with, critiques of injustice, towards liberation. This approach requires educators to put in β€œthe work” of organizing around education in ways that center students, specifically from underrepresented backgrounds in newly created educational systems. bell hooks encourages the creation of an active relationship between educators and …

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Video Production for Online Teaching

This workshop, courtesy of the PublicsLab at the Graduate Center, offers three videos: a β€œcrash course” approach to audio/video production; a primer on β€œCamera Angles and Lighting Techniques” and β€œAdvanced Audio Methods & Pedagogy.” This workshops was developed by Mike Mena (The Publics Lab) as part of the Teach@CUNY 2020 Summer Institute. β€œThe Crash Course” …

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Equity and Access in the Online Learning Space

This workshop bridges the concepts of equity (broadly conceived) and accessibility, treating them as related and intersecting. Its intention is to increase our collective and individual capacity to become more equity and accessibility-minded educators: especially in the online classroom, where existing inequity and a lack of accessibility can sometimes be magnified, but which is also …

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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 …

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