This workshop introduces game-based strategies for teaching with and about artificial intelligence. Participants will learn how to develop students’ AI literacy through interactive storytelling, collaborative problem solving, doodling, and notecard exercises. We will also discuss how to teach methods of… Read More »AI Literacy and Game-Based Learning
Instructors teaching with artificial intelligence face critical issues in data privacy, intellectual property, and algorithmic bias. Join us to learn how these concerns can inform the selection of AI tools suitable for your discipline and how to impart similar AI… Read More »AI Literacy and Disciplinary Thinking
Developing your own digital portfolio gives you agency over how you are presented online. A digital portfolio allows you to publicize your academic work, report on research, share creative endeavors, and connect with scholars and employers. In this workshop attendees… Read More »Developing a Digital Portfolio
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… Read More »Using Generative AI for “Uncreative Writing”
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… Read More »Open Pedagogy Interventions while Teaching Remotely: Place-based and digital storytelling projects
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… Read More »Ethical Approaches to Ed Tech
This workshop, courtesy of the PublicsLab at the Graduate Center, offers three videos: a “crash course” approach to audio/video production; a primer on “Camera Angles and Lighting Techniques” and “Advanced Audio Methods & Pedagogy.” This workshops was developed by Mike… Read More »Video Production for Online Teaching
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… Read More »Series on Teaching with the CUNY Academic Commons (WordPress)
“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. 8). Have you ever… Read More »Using Online Polls to Promote Active Learning and Student Engagement
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… Read More »Cultivating Student Participation Using Online Polls
Are you looking for ways to improve your students’ 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… Read More »Social Reading and Writing
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… Read More »Demystifying Ed Tech
Have you used or considered using social media in your classes? Teaching with social media comes with unique challenges and possibilities. Meeting learners where they are is a fundamental aspect of creating a democratic learning community. For students who already… Read More »Teaching with Social Media
This workshop is targeted towards both beginner and intermediate level college teachers who want to learn about how to introduce technology into their pedagogy. We will showcase a number of free and no-experience required options for interacting with your students… Read More »Web-based Technologies
We often choose the technologies we teach with based on our learning goals, student access to tools, and how easy those technologies are to use. But how much do we really know about the digital tools we use in our… Read More »Ethical Tech: Choosing digital tools for teaching
Join staff from the Teaching and Learning Center for a workshop on how to teach with WordPress. WordPress is a web-based publishing platform that, when used in college courses, can facilitate a variety of writing and multi-modal assignments and can… Read More »Teaching with WordPress and the CUNY Academic Commons
