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Learning That Matters

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Breaking News: ChatGPT breaks higher ed😜

We're trying to curate the best resources and ideas here to get you up to speed as quickly as possible! Please share the link to this page with colleagues who may not be fully aware of GPT yet or who might be looking for curated resources and ideas

- Cut and Paste AI Prompts for Teaching (a "get started with AI" kit)
   - Curated Resource List
- Interactive think pages: Take your courses in a new direction  - download to interact
- Can ChatGPT be a blessing?
-  ChatGPT: Understanding the new landscape and short-term solutions
- The nail in the coffin: How AI could be the impetus to reimagine education
- Article in Faculty Focus, "ChatGPT: A Must-See Before the Semester Begins"
- Cynthia talks with Catherine on the Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning Podcast
- Cynthia talks with Bonni about AI on the Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast
- Cynthia talks with Laura on POD Network's "Centering Centers" Podcast
- Request a speaking engagement: Cynthia's Media Kit

Additional Resources

We weren't able to explain every strategy in detail in our book. This page will help you learn more about how to implement specific concepts from the book along with other complementary strategies we recommend. We've got worksheets, student handouts, links, and more. We'll also use this page to help faculty navigate teaching on the cutting edge. Check back regularly because we add something new almost every week. Everything in purple is clickable.

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Teaching Matters (Ch. 1)

Programs we are associated with:
- The Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education (Julia)
- Georgia's Governor's Teaching Fellows and GC Journeys/LEAP (Cynthia)

From the Foundation Up (Ch. 2)

Who Are You?
- Take the Teaching Perspectives Inventory

Construct and Connect
- Concept map examples

Teaching Toward Equity
- Jones and Okun on The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
- A wonderful and practical article: Strategies for Antiracist and Decolonized Teaching
- Georgetown's Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit

Motivation Matters
- Daniel Pink's TED Talk on motivation theory
- Motivate yourself with the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Listen while you walk!
- Examining motivation through willingness to prepare: pre-course survey and mid-course survey

Design Matters (Ch. 3)

WHO are we designing for?
- Empathy Map Worksheet
- Diverse Composite Personas Worksheet

A variation on Design Thinking for education: Liberatory Design

Portable Outcomes (Ch. 4)

Sharing Aspirational Outcomes with Students
- Sharing your vision: How to write a syllabus letter
- Example of a syllabus letter for a single course, 1st year students
- Example of a syllabus letter, upper level course
- Example of a syllabus letter introducing a graduate program

Invitational Syllabi
- Some lovely websites on creating invitational syllabi include: Brown, Champlain, Mount Holyoke
and Oregon State
- A resource for creating a meaningful discussion around device usage with students from Ashley
Waggoner Denton

Information Literacy - possibly the most important portable outcome
- Using games to teach information literacy
- The debunking handbook
- How we inadvertently spread misinformation (and how to stop doing it!)
- A mini-course you can use with your students (highly recommended by Bonni Stachowiak)

The DIQ Approach (Ch. 5)

Finding your DIQ
- DIQ Brainstorming Worksheet

Connected Assessment (Ch. 6)

Anticipation Guides
- How to create an anticipation guide
- Our thoughts on the anticipation guide on p. 93

Rubric Examples
- Cult of Pedagogy on types of rubrics
- Rubristar a useful starting point (you don't have to sign up)
- A variety of rubrics Julia has used (mostly science, but some broadly applicable)
- Reading Recommendation: Eleven alternative assessments

Test Construction
- A quick guide to writing good multiple-choice questions
- An amusing "bad multiple-choice test" and key to what makes each question bad

Un-Grading (Not familiar with this? You simply MUST learn more.)
- Start with this podcast interview with Susan D. Blum. Hopefully you will race out afterwards to buy her book!
- Shifting attention from grades to learning
- On "specifications grading," Yes, Virgina, there is a Better Way to Grade
- Susan Blum introduces her ideas on ungrading on her blog
- For those who would like to cautiously minimize grades, we give you Robert Talbert
- Sackstein's Hacking Assessment and Feldman's Grading for Equity lean P-12, but their ideas are easily transferable

The Power of Projects (Ch. 7)

Performance Tasks
- A wonderful handout with more examples of PTs (pp. 3&4), a template (p. 5), and best of all, marvelous lists of possible roles, audiences, and products (pp. 9&10)
- Did you try annotating the tasks on pp. 121-124? Here's what it looked like when we did it.

Transparency in Learning and teaching (TiLT)
- THE site for all things related to "Transparency in Learning and Teaching" (TiLTing)
- The short, seminal article on TiLTing - a "must read"
- Another example of a TiLTed project
- A simple format to fill in each step in the TiLTing process
- Print this out when you are done to self-assess your TiLTing or get feedback from a peer

How much is too much?
- How do you know if you are assigning too much out of class work (or not enough)? This article (and the accompanying "estimator") can help you know

Strategies That Matter (Ch. 8)

Co-Construction Circles
- Instructor Notes
- Student Handout

Making Learning More Sticky
- "POESIS" Student Handout
- Format for taking "Notes that Stick"
- A fantastic article for students: Optimizing Learning in College
- A podcast episode: "Stop Talking, Start Influencing"
- The beloved "Elaboration Bookmark"

Help! I need more strategies!
  - Let the KP Cross Academy come to your rescue - dozens of strategies with terrific videos describing each
- Consider how to address the needs of the whole student - Minding Bodies

Resources for Flipping the Classroom
- Cynthia's letter to introduce students to the upsides to flipping

Supporting Students (Ch. 9)

Social Emotional Learning
- Short "flourishing strategies" for you and your students: Open the "follow up" in each folder
- Jackpot! A searchable database of targeted supports for students
- Character Lab's incredibly practical "Playbooks" - they lean K12 but can be easily adapted
- Everything you need for the "Build Connections" activity
- How to give feedback in the most positive way possible? The Motivate Lab's "Wise Feedback Framing"
- You've heard about promoting "growth mindset" but how do you do it?
- You'd like to let students revise work after the final grade sometimes? Here's a way to do it well. (pp. 6-8)

Your Turn (Ch. 10)

Is your teaching aligned with your values?
- This inventory can help you decide.
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