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Hi All! I teach philosophy of education/teacher education at York College and it’s been an interesting time to be in this field, to say the least. My approach is to use AI developments to spark deeper philosophical discussions. I wrote an article on this back in 2023.

For the past year, I’ve been specializing in custom bots/GPTs as a means to…[Read more]

@mpalit – I really like this! How could mindfulness help with growth mindsets?

One idea I got now is that recognizing our own mindsets is not easy in itself and perhaps mindfulness can help with self awareness.

I came across this resource through my Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) Digital Humanities reading group, and remembered this forum! So interesting to find “failure” as a keyword:
https://digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org/keyword/Failure

This article is specially…[Read more]

Hi again – I was just reading this article, h/t Dr. Kevin Kolack @professork and brought me back to this thread! It’s interesting that based on this research the impact of peer groups on motivation has “tended to be ignored.”

“Five Keys to Motivating Students”

Pintrich notes that research on social goals “highlights the importance of peer g…

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• Overall, I didn’t feel like I belonged in the greater campus community. Perhaps this was in part due to being a first-generation student and feeling that (something which was probably far from true!) others had things more figured out, as in what college life was all about. I also didn’t engage in many extracurricular activities, at least not…

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Hi Weiheng – thanks for sharing. Your example of interest groups makes me think about the relationship between sense of belonging (S) and growth (G). Growing together with others builds sense of belonging… and a sense of belonging (including genuine conversation) helps with growth.

Something I’ve been wondering about is the practice of setting…[Read more]

Hi @elizabethklein1 – This is such a powerful example, focusing on AI. Maybe this is specially powerful because the new tools have come out so quickly, relatively speaking, and everyone who is trying them out is going through a learning process. Even those who designed and trained some of the generative AI tools are learning and getting surprised…[Read more]

Hi @jelizabethclark – thank you for sharing your change of name to “drop in student hours”! I like that! Come to think of it “office hours” is really not very descriptive and just describes a location (often associated with being a “serious” place to do “work”) and is probably not helpful overall.

It reminds me too of an experiment I tried a few…[Read more]

@elizabethklein1 – Thank you very much for the article. I was able to open it and will check it out!

Thank you, @elizabethklein1, for breaking it down into different forms, sharing about the book, and bringing risks into the discussion!

This and @professork ‘s reply got me thinking about how much our past experiences might shape our approaches to risk-taking.

I start the semester with an activity where I ask students about past positive and…[Read more]

How are some of you thinking of adding supplemental instruction? This was a new concept for me in this module and I’m curious about different strategies.

Related to (1), a workshop I went to on teaching philosophy led by David Concepcion, who was also mentioned in the “Metacognition” article by Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching comes to mind. Dr. Concepcion got us thinking from the start about what students would remember from the class not just at the end of the semester, but years later…[Read more]

+1 What is the platinum rule?

I use Loom too! Yes I don’t think it has a way for students to respond with videos. They can respond with emoji reactions during the video and with comments but I believe that is about it. I’ve been considering flipgrid. Any pros/cons?