Transformative Pedagogies: Small Changes for Transformation 2024 Retreat (Day 1)
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The Centre for Learning and Teaching invites you to join us in retreat gatherings focused on transformative teaching practices and that emphasize how to apply what you’ve learned from session facilitators.
Transforming our teaching practices for decolonization, Indigenization, intercultural competence and teaching, equity, and accessibility can seem like a daunting task. Our goal, through this retreat, is to support small changes we can each make that build on one another and move us toward our aspirational, wholly transformative learning spaces.
Wednesday, July 3
Online
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| 10-11 a.m. | Breaking Barriers: Making Gen AI Accessible for StudentsAbdullah Al Mukaddim, Artificial Intelligence Analyst Discover how Generative AI is transforming the educational landscape by making learning more accessible for students with various disabilities. This session, designed to help professors and instructors, will explore practical applications of Generative AI tools to support students with different learning challenges, providing personalized resources and innovative solutions to enhance their academic experience. |
| 11-11:45 a.m. | Curiosity Rooms Join CLT folks and peers to ask questions, share ideas, and experiment with what you've learned in the Retreat gatherings. |
| 1-2 p.m. | Critical Making and Material Culture for STEM Students in the Humanities ClassroomDr. Patricia Cove, Faculty of Agriculture In 2023-24, students in the new Faculty of Agriculture course “English Studies in Science and Technology” were assigned an optional “Maker Project.” The assignment was intended to engage students with experiential learning and material objects in a writing-intensive, first-year literary studies course serving agricultural science and engineering students, among others. Inspired by the Crafting Communities project (links opens to new page), the “Maker Project” assignment asked students to make a craft related to a technology of reading, writing, and communication and then write a reflection about that experience. This presentation will explore the uptake, successes, difficulties, and unforeseen complications of the first iterations of the “Maker Project.” |
| 2-2:45 p.m. | Curiosity Rooms Join CLT folks and peers to ask questions, share ideas, and experiment with what you've learned in the Retreat gatherings. |
Intended audience
- Faculty
- Faculty and staff
- Graduate Students
- Open to all
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Additional Information
Creating an accessible and optimal learning environment is paramount for the CLT: please email us at clt@dal.ca to let us know if you anticipate any barriers we will need to remove in the learning environment, or if there is anything in particular you feel we should know that will best facilitate your learning experience. The information you share will be kept confidential and only shared with the session facilitators.