Informal discussions of effective practices in teaching and learning.
Episodes
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
In an era of conspiracy theories and fake news, our students come into our classes with misconceptions and misunderstandings about our disciplines. In this episode, Kristin Croyle and Paul Tomascak join us to discuss how a first-year science seminar class confronts pseudoscience. Kristin is a Psychologist and Paul is a Geochemist. Kristin is the Dean and Paul is the Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at SUNY-Oswego.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Do your students create digital media in your courses or just consume it? Does the concept of information literacy seem too limited in this context? In this episode, Tom Mackey (Professor in the Department of Arts and Media at Empire State College) and Trudi Jacobson (Head of the Information Literacy Department and Distinguished Librarian at the State University of New York at Albany) join us to discuss metaliteracy as a framework for improving critical thinking and metacognition while students become active participants in the construction of knowledge in online communities.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.