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How do you know that student learning is actually happening? Usually through assessment, right? But how can you assess students without just a quiz or paper? How can you empower them and motivate them to learn and want to learn, so that assessment becomes something that is both powerful for you as an instructor and…
The Blended Teaching & Learning Support Team is available to meet with teachers to discuss any aspect of blended teaching and learning. Team members are: Catherine Braithwaite (History), Laurent Duval (French), Chantale Giguère (French), Daniel Goldsmith (Humanities), Einat Idan (Office of Academic Development), Mark Mattei (Physiotherapy Technology) and Helen Stavaris (Business Administration). For…
ComPAIR: Using Assessment to Support Learning ComPAIR: Using Assessment to Support Learning Friday, February 4th @ 2:30 – 4:00PM (14h30 – 16h) EST From Fine Arts to Physics, instructors/teachers acknowledge the challenge of promoting students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills. One effective way to scaffold the development of these high-level cognitive processes is to…
The Dawson Active Learning Community will be hosting several workshops this semester. All faculty members are invited to attend! Workshops topics will include Perusall, Active Learning Foundations, and the flipped classroom approach, among others. Consult the DALC website for dates, times and venue (some workshops will be virtual, others will be in person)….
A database with an effective search tool to assist with the mission of the Pavillon The Pavillon database brings together different pedagogical resources that can support you as a student or teacher. It allows you to find the tools that best meet your needs, using the filters. Each tool is labelled with icons, and their…
From Faculty Focus, November 15, 2021 Ashley Herr-Perrin Collective trauma, in spite of its profound gravity, has granted us an opportunity as educators. Through the devastation of COVID-19 and chaos of various social and political events within the past two years, attention to mental health has encouraged conversation instead of stigmatization (American Psychological Association, 2019)….
September 16 11:30 am – 12:30 pm En présence ou à distance, les outils numériques peuvent nous être utiles pour interagir avec nos étudiants: Pendant un cours, nous pouvons sonder nos étudiants de façon engageante. Hors des heures de cours, les étudiants peuvent intervenir sur des forums écrits ou vidéos. Ils peuvent également utiliser…
In August, the Minister of Higher Education announced a total of $512,076 in Entente Canada-Quebec (ECQ) grants for Dawson, from the 2021-22 call for projects launched last March. Here is a list of the Dawson projects that were funded: Creative collective for change / Le Collectif créatif pour le changement (Patricia Romano and Kim…
Congratulations Anna-Liisa Aunio and the Food Justice Team!
From Faculty Focus – June 14, 2021 Excerpt: We know that students used audio-visual media even before the COVID-19 move to online teaching. The number of viewers and subscribers to YouTube channels that host video tutorials by instructors provides strong evidence of students’ preference for this video content. For example, Professor Allen Sens from the…
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