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Designing a Course for Socially Dependent Learning

We often think of learning in individualistic terms. The student cognizes in their brain and performs some solitary task to demonstrate learning. For this work, they receive an individual assessment. These assumptions and practices are common regardless of how student-centered the teacher is (Barr &

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My Favorite Poems for First-Year Students

“Are those handouts for us?” my student asked, gesturing toward the copies of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 that I’d carried into class. “Nope,” I replied. “They’re for the Brit lit class that I teach after yours.” “Oh, OK.” he said, disappointedly.

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Gamification Using Mural

Gamification has been shown to improve student learning (Brull, 2016), and one of the best apps for facilitating gamification in the classroom is Mural, an online collaborative whiteboard with hundreds of engaging, colorful activity templates. It is one of my favorite teaching and learning tools

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Dynamic Simulations for Teaching

Computers have made it easier for instructors to use simulations in their teaching. These are usually self-paced and fully automated, allowing the instructor to step back and watch students work. But this automation tends to illuminate the randomness and sudden changes that happen in a

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Improve Student Research with Research Rabbit

Faculty lament that students often use Google searches rather than academic sources for research. But now there are AI tools that both restrict their searches to academic publications and manage the results to greatly speed up the writing process. Perhaps the most powerful of these

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What Does AI Know about Student Learning?

This essay covers student learning, misconceptions, search engines, and AI, but first a story to set the context. Most every academic discipline has an organization dedicated to teaching, and I’m active in mine, the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP). STP hosts a Facebook

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Personalized Chatbots for Improved Learning

AI systems provide a great way to produce study aids for your students. They can generate questions on a topic and even interact with students to tutor them through a topic. But general AI systems like ChatGPT draw from a huge range of information, well

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Assignments for Preparing Your Students for the AI Present

While many academics are still focused on keeping students away from artificial intelligence, others are preparing students to use AI in their current and future work. This means thinking about how IA is and will be used by our students, and crafting assignments that teach

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