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This is an interesting learning opportunity. This three module short course will help you:

- Identify the basic tenets of anti-racism and anti-racist teaching

- Understand your positionality, social identities and biases, as well as their impact on your teaching

- Create safe and inclusive classroom environments for the discussion of sensitive topics

- Implement anti-racist practices and strategies within your teaching and learning environment

https://taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/resources/module/anti-racism-edi-positionality
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Generative AI for Student and Educator Support - These are the slides for the session on August 21, 2024 by CTLI staff.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGM_uxIjNI/XzIMWwqtQicgdH0RmuBKNg/edit?utm_content=DAGM_uxIjNI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
If there are any questions or comments, please contact CTLI

I wish there was a space to chat with other faculty about specific technology tools for classroom engagement and management.

This article includes a good overview of AI, how to reduce the likelihood of students using it in the classroom, and ways to integrate AI into student learning from IU Bloomington's Center for Teaching & Learning:

https://citl.indiana.edu/teaching-resources/academic-integrity/AI-Generated%20Text.html

This blog posts covers some ethical issues with using ChatGPT in the classroom and activities to engage in before or instead of using ChatGPT: https://autumm.edtech.fm/2023/01/18/prior-to-or-instead-of-using-chatgpt-with-your-students/

A couple of resources I want to share:
Preparing Instructional Objectives: A Critical Tool in the Development of Effective Instruction 3rd Edition
by Robert F. Mager (cheap used versions available)

I've only begun digging through this, and I am hoping it will help me to clarify and target the kind of thinking I would like to promote in my teaching:
The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking. Stanovich, West and Toplak

'Smart people do foolish things because intelligence is not the same as the capacity for rational thinking. The Rationality Quotient explains that these two traits, often (and incorrectly) thought of as one, refer to different cognitive functions. The standard IQ test...doesn't measure any of the broad components of rationality—adaptive responding, good judgment, and good decision making. The authors show that rational thinking, like intelligence, is a measurable cognitive competence....[T]hey present the first prototype for an assessment of rational thinking analogous to the IQ test: the CART (Comprehensive Assessment of Rational Thinking).

Recently, I have been working on how we might provide instruction in DEI principles to the students in our courses. Here is what I have come up with:

"Timely Team Tips: Stealthy DEI Instruction through Brief Animated Explainer Videos

Fostering Inclusive Practices within the Student Learning Teams Organized for My IAH Courses"

Timely Team Tips #1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa18WLyz3tQ
Timely Team Tips #2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLzV0yFgX6E
Timely Team Tips #3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGTEdf54CI
Timely Team Tips #4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7wemM9h2zk
Timely Team Tips #5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITKHb5TtdV4
Timely Team Tips #6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GHwB3Dw8vc&t=7s
Timely Team Tips #7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjwCSyHhTKs&t=5s
Timely Team Tips #8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG53U-5QYe4
Timely Team Tips #9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxngV78pgsU
Timely Team Tips #10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwuikDDsRSI

The recently created explainer videos above are now embedded into my online course modules for Week 3-Week 12 and are presented to students in the context of fostering student learning team “cohesion” (I have made to conscious decision to avoid the terms diversity, equity, and inclusion in most instances) during weekly collaborative assignments and three larger digital projects students are asked to complete as part of my currently asynchronous online courses.

Part of my thinking behind this project has been to help prepare students for professional life after graduation – think 21st century employability skills -- given the attention paid to DEI principles and practices within the business and corporate world. The information presented in these animated explainer videos is a synthesis of other information from many different academic and corporate sources online by the way. I take no credit for it other than in the way I present it to my students, using the Doodly app. The project is developing, so I anticipate adjustments as I continue the work.

When I move to a hybrid modality as we transition back to the physical classroom next fall (???), I plan to keep and retain all of the online materials developed during the last two years of the pandemic to better support, motivate, and engage the students in my (gen. ed.) courses, another ongoing project of long standing.

If ever you would like to talk in more detail about my ongoing work with this, just drop me a line. As difficult as the last couple of years have been for everyone, I have really enjoyed the turbo charged push forward it has provided when t comes to how I think about my courses, teaching, and related points here at MSU.

MSU purchased a campus-wide pass, so all MSU Faculty, Staff and Students can attend next week's OLC Innovate virtual conference free of charge.

Registration instructions: https://iteach.msu.edu/iteachmsu/groups/iteachmsu/stories/1557

Sponsored by MSU IT and MSU Hub.