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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Our discoveries took place in language classes, but many other fields can benefit from using mind maps in similar ways.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Our discoveries took place in language classes, but many other fields can benefit from using mind maps in similar ways.

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Should Educators Put Disclosures on Teaching Materials When They Use AI?

Edsurge

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. While there are major organizations including the Modern Language Association and the American Psychological Association that have issued guidelines on citing generative AI, he says the approaches remain clunky.

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How Professors Can Bring Culturally-Responsive Teaching to Online Courses

Edsurge

Parra , an assistant professor at New Mexico State’s department of curriculum and instruction learning design & technology, says she’s offered her students the opportunity to use their own languages to complete activities. “To Parra also gives her students options for her assignments that go beyond language.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

Scholarly Teacher

Group work is a great tool in a STEM teacher’s arsenal, and one of the most important ways that modern teaching is deviating from the traditional lecture (Freeman et al., Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk.

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5 Microsoft OneNote Tips Every Educator Should Know

EdTech Magazine

I’ve used this space for flipped classrooms when I have students do group work in class, like this example from a course on Greek archaeology: Each group of students can work simultaneously on one page, adding content which is marked with a vertical colored stripe and the student’s initials so you can see which student added which content.

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A Transformative Journey: Lessons from My First Year  

Faculty Focus

It also enhances the teaching experience for the instructor. To ensure inclusivity, I check the lyrics to avoid any offensive language. This survey prompts students to share important personal information such as work hours, commuting time, computer access, racial background, and gender identity. Reference Addy, T. Mitchell, K.

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