Paolo Freire and Carter Woodson both envisioned a liberatory educational practice that would someday upend the social order of our world. With the advent of learning technologies, the realization of that vision is well within the grasp of contemporary educators. As the world enters the Anthropocene era, society is on the cusp of finally understanding the delicate web…
Higher education has been challenged and transformed by multiple innovations in recent years. Our fall discussion series will give interested faculty, students, and staff the opportunity to learn more about the theory, practice, and research supporting three of the most popular and current educational trends. Handouts and electronic resources will be posted on the Lehman…
This fall, the Teaching & Learning Commons will offer a workshop series based on Thinking through Quality Questioning: Deepening Student Engagement (Walsh, Sattes, 2011). Quality questioning engages students and teachers in two areas: asking instructors to re-examine their communication styles and asking teachers and students to design questions that support deep learning and thinking. These…
Ever wanted to learn how to code? This introductory workshop will introduce basic concepts and give you hands on experience to send you on your way to building sites. No prior HTML experience needed. Facilitator: Lisa Brundage Register here: http://gcitplabs.eventbrite.com
How do we encourage students to take charge of their own learning? Donald L. Finkel’s Teaching with Your Mouth Shut (Boynton/Cook, 2000) makes an excellent set of arguments for opening teaching and learning practices to include and prioritize student empowerment. Each discussion session will cover the main points of three book chapters; handouts and electronic…
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of programming using Python, a language popular in both academia and the commercial world. Topics will include basic programming concepts such as loops, variables, and conditionals, installing and importing libraries, and creating simple scripts. No previous programming experience is necessary. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-python-tickets-18728362035 http://digitalfellows.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/
Information Session 0n Wednesday September 30, 2015 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Graduate Center, Room 9206 A graduate school Fellowship for immigrants & the children of immigrants Application Deadline: November 1, 2015, 11:59 PM EST See flyer for more details here or visit: www.pdsoros.org
Digital Fellows office hours are open to all GC students, faculty, and staff. During office hours, a rotating staff of two GC Digital Fellows provide one-on-one assistance for your digital humanities and digital scholarship projects. For more information about the assistance we provide, please visit the GC Digital Fellows website.
RICK MINERICH Director of Research, Bayard Rock, LLC Traditional approaches in anti-money laundering involve simple matching algorithms and a lot of human review. However, in recent years this approach has proven to not scale well with the ever increasingly strict regulatory environment. We at Bayard Rock have had much success at applying fancier approaches, including…
This fall, the Teaching & Learning Commons will offer a workshop series based on Thinking through Quality Questioning: Deepening Student Engagement (Walsh, Sattes, 2011). Quality questioning engages students and teachers in two areas: asking instructors to re-examine their communication styles and asking teachers and students to design questions that support deep learning and thinking. These…
This workshop will explore some ways that you can collections of text using a program called MALLET (MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit), including a popular method known as topic modeling. Topic modeling can find groups of words that tend to occur together and show how these groups are distributed across a collection as a whole.…
Join us for a hands-on introduction to open educational resources, free and open source research and pedagogy tools. This workshop will cover the fundamentals of OER: from definitions, it's positioning in higher education, to strategies for finding, evaluating, and incorporating existing OER into your teaching, and creating your own OER. If you have a laptop,…
The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with the WordPress platform while creating a digital academic identity on the CUNY Academic Commons. We will focus on the main design and content components of a WordPress site, including theme editing, managing content, custom menus and image use*. We will create a WordPress site on…
Digital Fellows office hours are open to all GC students, faculty, and staff. During office hours, a rotating staff of two GC Digital Fellows provide one-on-one assistance for your digital humanities and digital scholarship projects. For more information about the assistance we provide, please visit the GC Digital Fellows website.
This fall, the Teaching & Learning Commons will offer a workshop series based on Thinking through Quality Questioning: Deepening Student Engagement (Walsh, Sattes, 2011). Quality questioning engages students and teachers in two areas: asking instructors to re-examine their communication styles and asking teachers and students to design questions that support deep learning and thinking. These…
At the next New Media Lab general meeting two doctoral students will demonstrate advances they’ve made on their already well-developed digital projects. Tuesday OCT 13 — 12:30–2PM — NML, room 7388.01 Bijan Kimiagar will talk about how he used ATLAS.ti to analyze his visual data for Organizing Ourselves. The goal of this project is to…
