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Wonderful writeup about the Pig Project, a Spartan Studios course I got to facilitate last fall. This experiential, interdisciplinary course involved students taking responsibility for and raising piglets at the MSU Student Organic Farm. Author Greg Teachout interviewed me and the primary instructors Laurie Thorp and Dale Rozeboom (from the overall 5-member teaching team) and really got to the heart of this course. https://undergrad.msu.edu/news/view/id/432

Another interesting piece on Faculty Focus this morning that provides additional tips for [motivating] and engaging our students in class. I hope to try a few of these next fall when I return to the (hybrid) classroom. Hope you might find these tips useful in your own journey to motivate and engage undergrads.

Kind Regards,

Stokes

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/engaging-students-at-a-deeper-level/?st=FFdaily%3Bsc%3DFF220330%3Butm_term%3DFF220330

In my ongoing quest to find how we might better motivate and engage our students, particularly within a general education context, I've come across a couple of interesting sources online.

Universal Design for Learning at a Glance -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1B6yQXsr0c
Provides an engaging, concise explanation of what UDL is and how it works in the (college) 'classroom.'

The Nora Project -- https://thenoraproject.ngo/mission
A fairly comprehensive website that addresses the intersection of disability and inclusivity. Geared more specifically toward teaching children, there are nevertheless various resources and approaches that might be tweaked a bit to fit the college 'classroom' in whatever form that takes right now.

Both are providing me with all sorts of ways that I can tailor (and expand the range of) student assessments moving toward and planning for AY2022-2023.

After attending a learning community yesterday afternoon (and looking at MSU's online guidelines) on diversity, equity, and inclusion, I took a stab at putting together a two-minute Doodly video on the subject but pitched to the students in my courses. I've embedded it within the Week Six module of each course since part of student teamwork next week will be assessing their team dynamic, habits, and processes in the completion of Project #1, which teams are turning in on Friday, October 1st. Invariably, there will be a few teams who had interpersonal and/or work habit problems due to procrastination, poor planning, or weak organization. I've tried to use very basic DEI guidelines/definitions as a way to help teams think about their approach and improve collaboration for the latter 2/3 of the semester. See what you think. I hope I am not missing the point somehow. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDX61xCHN74

Massive changes have occurred recently with regard to artificial intelligence (AI) and the ability of the public to generate novel text and images using AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT). Many in education are concerned with what this means for assessing student understanding: if a student can generate a novel, accurate essay on almost any topic, how will you assess learning from short-answer and essay assignments?

On 02/01/2023, a campus collaboration of the APUE STEM+ Ed@State, Enhanced Digital Learning Initiative (EDLI), Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI), MSU Libraries, and MSU IT EdTech, hosted the "Symposium on AI in Education and Academic Writing". During the symposium, the basics of how AI works were shared and attendees had opportunities to play with some AI tools. The event provided opportunities to hear how faculty are addressing these challenges, discuss concerns and opportunities with colleagues, and reflect on individual teaching philosophies in the time of artificial intelligence (AI).

In 2019, Madeline Shellgren and I presented a version of "For Graduate Students, By Graduate Students" at the Lilly Conference on Advancing Teaching and Learning. Proceedings are attached.

It's always an unexpected pleasure to learn that one's approach resonates with colleagues. Here is a short piece written in response to my presentation at the 2019 AAN Conference on Teaching, Learning, and Student Success, which dealt with how we might get our student to actually read what we assign each week: https://hub.msu.edu/questioning-the-compliance-narrative/

And no, I don't google myself as a habit! On the contrary, I was referred to the above link by an acquaintance. ;-)

A few links that have to do with community building and student experience in our program. We also use Teams and SharePoint a lot. ;) Sharing because I'm hoping others will reciprocate!

Graduation and Commencement page: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/commencement/
Alumni page recently updated to tell alumni how to connect with us and to link to their portfolios better: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/alumni/
Events page, with a link to the post about our biweekly (fortnightly?) virtual Midweek Meetups, which are open and outward-facing now rather than students only. The rest of the page is out of date: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/maflt-events.