For Summer 2015 Bodwell began a series of orientation workshops for new students to enable them to better adapt to a new work and living culture. This session focused on various strategies that can be used in order to succeed at school and in life. Students were actively engaged in activities that made them critically think about topics such as stress management, time management, types of learners, speaking English, reading for understanding, learning vocabulary, peer-editing, and graphic organizers. If students are able to apply all of these skills, they should be able to be confident learners and active participants
For Summer 2015 Bodwell began a series of orientation workshops for new students to enable them to better adapt to a new work and living culture. This session focused on various strategies that can be used in order to succeed at school and in life. Students were actively engaged in activities that made them critically think about topics such as stress management, time management, types of learners, speaking English, reading for understanding, learning vocabulary, peer-editing, and graphic organizers. If students are able to apply all of these skills, they should be able to be confident learners and active participants
Learning Objective: Assess methods for improving study skills
Learning to study effectively is a skill that benefits everyone, even the smartest in the class. When polled, most college students would agree that when they started college, they did not know how to properly study. In this seminar, we will address preparatory study principles, such as setting goals, knowing your learning style, being an active reader, participating in study groups, organizing your notes and study materials, and writing drafts of papers, that can help all students improve their study skills and perform better.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
a. Identify the traits of successful studying candidates.
b. Generate methods for achieving successful studying habits.
c. Outline methods for implementing successful studying techniques.
Learning Objective: Assess methods for improving study skills
Learning to study effectively is a skill that benefits everyone, even the smartest in the class. When polled, most college students would agree that when they started college, they did not know how to properly study. In this seminar, we will address preparatory study principles, such as setting goals, knowing your learning style, being an active reader, participating in study groups, organizing your notes and study materials, and writing drafts of papers, that can help all students improve their study skills and perform better.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
a. Identify the traits of successful studying candidates.
b. Generate methods for achieving successful studying habits.
c. Outline methods for implementing successful studying techniques.
A work in progress - drafts to be updated and completed later. Practice with the the assessment statements from the Core component of the course that require diagrams.
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Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
2. Student Teachers
In groups, instruct students to prepare a short (5-10
mins) lesson summarising a topic, including
resources and activities (the preparation makes a
good homework).
Groups should deliver the lessons either as wholeclass lessons or by splitting up and visiting each of
the other groups individually.
Students should aim to make their lessons creative
and memorable.
4. Rework Your Notes
Go through your notes and use different colours to
highlight different things (adapt to suit subject):
Red
Yellow
Green
Blue
- Events
- People
- Facts/Figures
- Ideas/Explanations
Re-write your notes including just the things you
highlighted as important
Limit yourself to a single side of A4 for each
topic…do this by including just the important stuff,
not by writing really small!
5. Connections Maps
Similar to a mind-map but at a higher level.
Students should :
Write the name of each topic in a box/circle
Draw lines between topics where they can identify some
kind of connection
Write a couple of words on the line to explain the
connection
C1:
C2:
Particulate
nature of
matter
C3: Atoms,
elements and
compounds
the state of matter
matters
C4:
Stoichiometry
Separation
techniques
6. Flash Cards*
Make a series of flashcards.
Front: keyword, date, equation, event, character, process etc
Back: detail about the thing on the front
Use colour, images and interesting lettering to make them more memorable
Ideas for using flashcards:
Try to memorise them yourself
Enlist parent/sibling/friend/pet to test you on them
Place them face down and try to remember the front given the back and vice versa
Refer to them when practicing past-papers, this will highlight important details you
may have left off – add them on
Stick them around your house so there is no escape!
Make a small mark on the card when you get it right, once you have three marks
on a card, you can remove it from the pile to focus on the harder-to-remember
ones
* These are good for memory, less so for understanding
7. Games
Word Association: with a partner, player A starts with a
keyword related to the subject, player B then says a
related word. If a player hesitates, strays off subject or
the word is not related, they lose a point.
Dominoes: on a series of cards draw a line down the
middle to split them in half. Write a series of pairs of
ideas (question/answer, date/event etc) on separate
halves of the cards. Use these to play dominoes by
matching up the pairs
Pictionary: students take it in turns to draw a
concept/idea/event and their friends have to guess it.
Could be done with plasticine if you don’t mind a trip to
the surreal.
Taboo: students take turns to describe
concepts/ideas/events but without being able to use
certain key words
8. Graphic Organisers
Use tables and charts to summarise and organise
information
Show
Sort
The
Various
Identify
Different
Steps
Ideas
In
A
Similarities
Choose the most
important
Differences
More
Complex
Process
Microsoft Office contains lots of these (go to ‘Insert’ then
‘SmartArt’), and there are very many more at
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/
9. Marketplace
In groups, assign each group one of a series of topics or
sub-topics to work on.
Each group gets 30 minutes to produce a poster
summarising everything important about that (sub)topic,
making use of all available resources.
Posters are placed around the classroom and one
member of each group stays with the poster to present it
whilst the others tour the other groups’ posters learning
as much as they can.
The students are given a challenging set of exam
questions focussed on the topics addressed in the
posters and must work in their groups to answer them.
Go through the answers and debrief any areas of
difficulty.
10. Tennis
Split class into two
Each half of the class writes 10 short and difficult questions on
a topic
You may need to model this
You may want a rule to prevent the class genius from writing all
the questions on a team
The first team serves by asking a question, the second team
returns by answering correctly and asking one of their own
A point is scored when the opponent fails to return the
question
The team that scored the point gets the privilege of serving
11. Mnemonics
Mnemonics are tools to help you remember a list of
keywords/steps in a process/sequence of events etc
For example the planets (plus Pluto-the-Unloved):
My Very Energetic Mouse Jumped Straight Up Neptune’s
Pyjamas
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
Pluto
Develop your own to help you memorise lists of things
you are struggling with.
Humour and absurdity can help make them more
memorable