This blog post is authored by Dr. Samantha Dressel, Assistant Professor of Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Department of English. I don’t think of myself as particularly a techy person, especially in my pedagogy, but over the last year, Nearpod has become one of my favorite teaching tools. It is simple to
This blog post is authored by Dr. Tara Barnhart, Assistant Professor of Attallah College of Educational Studies. When the pandemic hit, I knew I had to make a change. Both my research and teaching are centered around seeing students’ sense-making in their work. I also knew that maintaining students’ attention on Zoom during very long classes,
Do you have trouble getting your students to think about what they are learning and why they are learning it? Read on to see how private journals in Canvas can support student reflection. Neuroeducation applies the scientific method to curricula design and teaching strategies to better understand learning based on evidence of how our brains
Cheating in the classroom isn’t something new. Students use to think they were clever by replacing their water bottle labels with notes or using the back of their calculator covers to hide formulas. As technology grows, it opens more avenues for students to find ways to cheat. Instead of water bottles, students began to use
A few weeks ago my son (who lives far away in a snowy valley of northern Utah) texted me this picture: It’s a photo he’d taken of a partially-melted snowflake under a microscope. He told me that it was harder than he thought to capture the flakes under magnification, that all of the equipment
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Happy Monday! Chances are, you have some grading to do :-). For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we chose the 20-Minute Mentor “How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?” presented by Dr. Amy Mulnix. We highly recommend watching the full video in 20-Minute Mentor Commons in the Chapman University Magna Campus.
Final exam season has arrived. These last two weeks of the semester can be a super stressful time for both instructors and students. For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we chose a 20-Minute Mentor presented by Dr. Kristin Roush about how instructors can help students alleviate test anxiety. You can watch “How Can Students
We hope that you had a restful Thanksgiving break. Before Thanksgiving, we featured parts one and two of a three-part series of 20-Minute Mentors by Dr. Thomas (Tom) Tobin about Universal Design for Learning (UDL). For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we are finishing the series with “How Can I Implement UDL in the
For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we chose part two of a three-part series of 20-Minute Mentors by Dr. Thomas (Tom) Tobin: “How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Days?” We highly recommend watching the full video in 20-Minute Mentor Commons in the Chapman University Magna Campus. See last week’s edition of