CUNY Academic Commons | Laura Kates | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/lkates/activity/ Activity feed for Laura Kates. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 43f1d16a02a16d03153406d18f13c0c9 Laura Kates replied to the topic Module 7 — Kingsborough Community College in the forum Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) @ CUNY https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=141737 Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:36:54 -0400 I’m realizing from my participation in CITE so far, that I’m not that visual a person, meaning I don’t always respond to graphics that well and don’t always comprehend them that well. Although I love visual art, I’ve been intensely drawn to print and to reading and writing since I was a very young child.

So, maybe it’s me but I didn’t enjoy…[Read more]

]]> 730a7a2b9b5b115d2e6f7b0bd778e547 Laura Kates replied to the topic Module 6 — Kingsborough Community College in the forum Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) @ CUNY https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=141734 Sat, 01 Jul 2023 21:21:33 -0400 I really appreciate the thoughtful, in depth approach taken by the CITE group to framing equity. One thing that stands out to me is the inclusion of joy, creativity and expression. I think that, commonly, when issues of educational equity are addressed, and when computing related praxis is explored, the focus is frequently on quantitative findings…[Read more]

]]> 5f610e4c239139bf671f74cbaf1897e1 Laura Kates replied to the topic Module 3 — Kingsborough Community College in the forum Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) @ CUNY https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=141656 Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:28:14 -0400 I used Google Slides. Basic I know, but I hadn’t used it much and it’s so useful to be proficient with it.
Here’s a link to my presentation: “HOW I CREATE AN ASSIGNMENT”: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TZZmPKuzpH34rhBQ_gRf9Jw7Y6FXQJP95YSWiPHIYk0/edit#slide=id.g255451e1937_0_25
Really, I learned mostly about just the basics of how to…[Read more]

]]> 5f12b7b017f04756ab91206e98e1970a Laura Kates replied to the topic Module 2 - Kingsborough KCC in the forum Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) @ CUNY https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=141624 Sat, 24 Jun 2023 17:08:57 -0400 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13v2918C69sloJDmMYzFfGZedQ7KPbeu6C7FVSwiuI6M/edit?usp=sharing
I tweaked this activity so that it incorporated an active listening component and an opportunity for group members to voice their thoughts in pairs initially because this can be a more comfortable way to share for some people than is doing so in a…[Read more]

]]> 12a3070b9a70cae3c2c5fab344122e0d Laura Kates replied to the topic Module 1 - Kingsborough KCC in the forum Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) @ CUNY https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=141623 Sat, 24 Jun 2023 16:14:43 -0400 Joanna – I like rule bending and tinkering too but am not sure the NYCDOT shares this value lol. Could be a costly experiment for you!

]]> a4733c213a719ab1f821537ac05e910a Laura Kates replied to the topic Module 1 - Kingsborough KCC in the forum Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) @ CUNY https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=141620 Sat, 24 Jun 2023 16:10:28 -0400 Hi –
I’m Laura Kates, Professor in the KCC Education Program since 2006.
I don’t recall just which cards I chose, because I submitted the form awhile back. I do remember that it was VERY difficult to choose just five because they all seemed so important. In fact, I think about them all the time because, taken together, they were such a wonderful…[Read more]

]]> 7b1c42676a0b6d0af62ddb36534a7b55 Laura Kates joined the group Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) @ CUNY https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/929054/ Sat, 24 Jun 2023 15:52:50 -0400 2d9bda0ff0a9b31dcdee72d5c5f5f7b6 Laura Kates's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/847124/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:28:05 -0400 3061bbab855b3d240de07a6ed0966fd8 Laura Kates wrote a new post on the site Teaching to the Whole Student https://wholestudent.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=171 Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:50:59 -0400 Meeting #1     10/19/21

This semester, we are using Christopher Emdin’s “For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood … and the Rest of Y’all Too” to examine our pedagogy in relation to teaching to the whole […]

]]> 6036f3e5d577ee2f56ec2f563ae9b4ab Laura Kates wrote a new post on the site Teaching to the Whole Student https://wholestudent.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=148 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:45:31 -0400 Meeting #3     5/29/2020

For our third meeting we discussed the brief chapter “Conversation.” Guiding questions to consider ahead of time were:

What is your response to hooks’ view of the role of conversat […]

]]> b6ba2fc27687e4289f6465f63064130f Laura Kates wrote a new post on the site Teaching to the Whole Student https://wholestudent.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=145 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:43:32 -0400 For our second meeting we discussed the brief chapter “Engaged Pedagogy.” Guiding questions to consider ahead of time were:

hooks states that, “Engaged pedagogy begins with the assumption that we learn best […]

]]> 75cd24320b1dabe24102ccaa4fb9240a Laura Kates wrote a new post on the site Teaching to the Whole Student https://wholestudent.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=135 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 18:33:02 -0400 Meeting #1     5/1/2020

For our first meeting we discussed the brief chapter “Critical Thinking.” Guiding questions to consider ahead of time were:

How do you respond to hooks’ definition of critical […]

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