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LEleaton01.bsky.socialOct 10, 2024 10:31am

here's round 2 with Stacey M. Johnson in reflecting about our earlier selves as educators...feel free to join in the conversation! www.byanyothernerd.com/2024/10/dial...#Teaching #Learning #HigherEd #Academia #EdTech #FacDev

Dialogs on Teaching #2: transformational and transactional learning

Thoughts on books, audiobooks, comics, running, higher education, teaching, pop culture, open access, & artificial intelligence from Lance Eaton

KCkarencosta.bsky.socialOct 9, 2024 8:11pm

Progress! #HigherEd #FacDev #AcademicSky

DLluckytran.bsky.socialOct 9, 2024 8:08pm

Starting this semester, the University of California San Diego will require all students to complete a climate change course and demonstrate the ability to understand and address climate change. We should require any political leader taking office to do the same.

A knowledge of climate change is required of all candidates for a Bachelor’s degree who are admitted to UC San Diego as a first-time, first-year student in Fall 2024 or thereafter.

About the Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement

The establishment of this new graduation requirement for incoming first-year students, beginning fall 2024, is designed to empower our students with the knowledge and skills needed to confront the urgent global challenge of climate change. UC San Diego has long been a leader in climate change research. The JTCCER builds upon the faculty’s commitment by expanding educational engagement with climate change across a range of disciplines and responds to the growing demand by undergraduates for climate-related courses and content.

Starting with the first-year student cohort entering in fall 2024, candidates for the Bachelor’s degree will be required to complete a one-quarter course approved by the Academic Senate to fulfill the JTCCER.

KCkarencosta.bsky.socialOct 8, 2024 11:53am

#HigherEd #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #AcademicSky #FacDev www.climateactionpedagogy.com/resources.html

I was thinking this week about the general lack of attention to #ClimateChange amongst #HigherEd executive leaders. I suspect that many of these leaders want to do something, but the fear of being seen as an amateur around #ClimateAction and #ClimateScience keeps many of them stuck.

Today, as yet another climate disaster bears down on us, is a good day to face these fears.

As institutions of teaching and learning, I believe that the way forward to becoming truly #ClimateInformed institutions is to start with our faculty.

My suggestion: empower your faculty. Invest in your faculty. Believe in faculty creativity. Pay your faculty for their labor. Work with faculty to shift their scopes of practice toward #ClimateActionPedagogy. Great leaders don't have to be experts on everything; they do need to celebrate and support the expertise of their team.

#HigherEd is uniquely positioned to not only educate our citizens for the era of #ClimateChange, but we can also be role models for the

KCkarencosta.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 5:32pm

Great first meeting of The Climate Circle. We'll meet again in Nov. and Dec. If you want community around the work of weaving climate into your teaching/work, do join us. #HigherEd #FacDev #AcademicSky www.climateactionpedagogy.com/the-climate-...

The Climate Circle

In the fall of 2024, I'll begin facilitating a monthly process and support community for educators who are integrating climate action into their work and teaching. I'll be offering The Climate Circle....

KCkarencosta.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 4:28pm

Open access climate edu article #HigherEd #FacDev #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

DTdrtolunoah.bsky.socialOct 1, 2024 11:38pm

Today, I facilitated workshops for instructors and staff about the new Padlet Sandbox tool! Take a peek behind the curtain into my facilitation moves here: www.linkedin.com/posts/tolu-n...#Padlet #FacDev #EdDev #HigherEd #EdTech

The title slide for a workshop. It reads:

Goodbye Jamboard, Hello Padlet Sandbox!

Facilitated by Tolulope (Tolu) Noah, Ed.D.
Instructional Learning Spaces Coordinator

Welcome to this session! Introduce yourself in the chat by sharing your name, department, and one word that comes to mind when you think of a sandbox.

A Padlet Sandbox card. The card has a grid with 12 boxes, which are labeled as follows:

1. Use the Text tool to type your first name below.

2. Add a sticky note that lists the name of your department.

3. Draw: Use the Pen tool to draw a picture of one of your favorite hobbies.

4. Draw: Use the Highlighter tool to draw three squiggly lines.

5. Draw: Use the Eraser tool to erase one of the squiggly lines in box 4.

6. Use the Shapes tool to add a yellow star below. (Bonus points for adding a yellow fill, too!)

7. Use the Upload tool to upload a non-confidential image or file from your computer.

8. Attachments: Add a link to the website of one of your favorite edtech tools.

9. Attachments: Add a YouTube video.

10. Attachments: Add a GIF that captures how you feel about Padlet Sandbox.

11. Attachments: Add another attachment of your choice below.

12. Use the Laser Pointer tool to point out which box you enjoyed working on most.

A slide entitled, "Fill-In-The-Blank Debrief." Below are two sentence starters:

One new thing I discovered about Padlet Sandbox is ______.

A lingering question I have about Padlet Sandbox is _____.

A Padlet Sandbox card. The top of the card has this question: "How could you use Padlet Sandbox for teaching and learning?"

Below are sticky notes and shapes with crowdsourced ideas from participants. They include:
-breakout room discussions
-interactive discussions
-scavenger hunt
-group activities
-brainstorming
-icebreakers
-warm-up activities
-checking for understanding
-small group discussions
-problem solving activities
-mini case studies
-showing videos and asking for reactions afterwards
-options for group presentations
-anonymous input
-in-class Q&A for introverted students

KCkarencosta.bsky.socialSep 25, 2024 11:58am

oh, the other thing I forgot to mention is how this policing of student reading behaviors feels very close to the policing of neurodivergent students' attention and behavior like y'all there are many ways of knowing, being, learning, expressing! #HigherEd #AcademicSky #FacDev

KCkarencosta.bsky.socialSep 25, 2024 11:39am

That's all I've got for now. I am curious how others are receiving the "students don't read" discourse. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #FacDev

KCkarencosta.bsky.socialSep 25, 2024 11:29am

Finally, where TF is #ClimateChange #FacDev #HigherEd #AcademicSky

KCkarencosta.bsky.socialSep 25, 2024 11:27am

Next, I reject the framing of "Students aren't reading." I'm not rejecting that we're seeing shifts in reading, but I reject the framing. Why not this frame: "#HigherEd isn't adapting to societal shifts and fails to meet this moment in human history"? #HigherEd #FacDev #AcademicSky