You can find recordings and resources from the Fall 2024 ACERT Lunchtime Seminar Series below. This semester we focused on the following topics:
- Getting ready for Brightspace: What our faculty ambassadors learned from designing their Brightspace courses
- Tools or distractions? Devices in the classroom in the era of cellphone bans
- Teaching Decision Making
- Bias and Ethics in AI
- AI Tools for Research
- Decentering Grades
- Managing Classroom Disruptions
- Listening to each other: How to encourage civil discourse in the classroom
- What is it like to teach on Brightspace?
- Teaching Innovations Lightning Talks
Getting ready for Brightspace: What our faculty ambassadors learned from designing their Brightspace courses
September 17, 2024 + September 19, 2024
Presenters: Kristen Hodnett (Special Education), Amber Alliger (Psychology), Jaya Rachwani (Physical Therapy), Ellen McCabe (Nursing)
- “Hunter Faculty Perspectives on Brightspace Course Design” (Kristen Hodnett)
- “Hunter Faculty Perspectives on Brightspace Course Design” (Amber Alliger)
- “Hunter Faculty Perspectives on Brightspace Course Design” (Jaya Rachwani)
- “Hunter Faculty Perspectives on Brightspace Course Design” (Ellen McCabe)
- Center for Online Learning Brightspace workshops
- Hunter College Brightspace transition website
- Recordings of CUNY Training on the Brightspace basics
- Center for Online Learning’s Technology Tool page for more resources on Brightspace
- CUNY’s Brightspace Transition resource page
- For any questions on Brightspace contact the LMS team at Hunter: lms@hunter.cuny.edu
Tools or distractions? Devices in the classroom in the era of cellphone bans
Presenters: Ingrid Lundeen (Anthropology), Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck (English)
- “Tools or Distractions? Devices in the classroom in the era of cellphone bans” (Ingrid Lundeen, Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck)
- “Tools or Distractions? Devices in the classroom in the era of cellphone bans” (Ingrid Lundeen)
- “Cellphones in the Classroom” (Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck)
Teaching Decision Making
Presenters: Gina Riley (SPED)
Recording:
- “Teaching Decision Making” (Gina Riley)
Presentation slides:
- “The Hunter SOE/DDPC Decision Making Curriculum” (Gina Riley)
- Project website: NYS Decision Making Curriculum
Bias and Ethics in AI
Presenters: Raj Korpan (Computer Science), Edgar Troudt (Curriculum and Teaching)
Recording:
- “Bias and Ethics in AI” (Raj Korpan and Edgar Troudt)
Presentation slides:
- “Bias and Ethics in AI” (Raj Korpan)
- “Bias and Ethics in AI” (Edgar Troudt)
AI Tools for Research
Presenters: Sherri Farber, Iris Finkel, Gina Levitan, Stephanie Margolin (Libraries)
Recording:
- “AI Tools for Research” (Sherri Farber, Iris Finkel, Gina Levitan, Stephanie Margolin)
Presentation slides:
- “AI Tools” (Sherri Farber, Iris Finkel, Gina Levitan, Stephanie Margolin)
Decentering Grades
Presenters: Ingrid Lundeen (Anthropology), Austin Bailey (English), Stephanie Margolin and Margaret Bausman (Libraries)
Recording:
- “Decentering Grades” (Ingrid Lundeen, Austin Bailey, Stephanie Margolin, and Meg Bausman)
- “Gamified Grading” (Ingrid Lundeen)
- “Decentering Grades” (Stephanie Margolin and Margaret Bausman)
- “Ungrading as Undisciplining the Humanities” (Austin Bailey)
- Ungrading the Composition Classroom: Affect, Metacognition, and Qualitative Learning (Austin Bailey and Caroline Wilkinson)
- Ungrading Has an Equity-Related Achilles Heel article (Grading for Growth)
- “Ungrading: why rating students undermines learning (and what to do instead)” ed. S. Blum (e-book via Hunter Library)
- Our ACERT podcast playlist on “Transforming Assessment” including Joe Hirsch on “Moving from Feedback to Feedforward” (The Cult of Pedagogy podcast)
- All our Transformative Learning Podcast Club materials
Managing Classroom Disruptions
Presenters: Kristen Hodnett (Special Education), Colleen Barry (Student Affairs), Leslie Ader (Student Affairs)
Resources:
- “Disruptions to Learning” (Kristen Hodnett)
- The Behavorial Response Team (BRT) at Hunter College
Listening to each other: How to encourage civil discourse in the classroom
Presenters: Vicki Lens (Social Work), Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck (English)
Recording:
- “Listening to each other: How to encourage respectful discourse in the classroom” (Vicki Lens, Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck)
- “Listening to Each Other” (Vicki Lens)
- “Using Student Strengths and Expanding Our View of What Argument Is” (Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck)
- “Norms of Engagement” (Michael Lewis)
What is it like to teach on Brightspace?
Presenters: Rebecca Collier (Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts, BMCC), Linda Gerena (World Languages, Literatures, and Humanities, York), Jennifer Gilken (Teacher Education, BMCC)
- “What is it like to teach on Brightspace?” (Rebecca Collier)
- “What is it like to teach on Brightspace?” (Linda Gerena)
- “What is it like to teach on Brightspace?” (Jennifer Gilken)
CUNY Brightspace resources:
Brightspace resources at Hunter:
Teaching Innovations Lightning Talks
Presenters: Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck (English), Marcia Liu (Asian American Studies), Gina Riley (Special Education), Alexis Diaz (School of Social Work), Sarah Craver (Education Abroad), Adina Mulliken (Libraries), Logan Spevak (Center for Online Learning), Julie Van Peteghem (Romance Languages), Jack Kenigsberg (English), Salvador Ruiz (Special Education), Noran Mohamed (Romance Languages), Samantha Walsh (Libraries), Gina Levitan (Libraries), Shiao-Chuan Kung (Center for Online Learning), Angela Padilla (Skirball Science Learning Center/Physics & Astronomy)
Resources:
Credits
All individual contributions are credited above. Many thanks to all the Fall 2024 ACERT Lunchtime Seminars Series panelists and presenters:
Amber Alliger (Psychology), Austin Bailey (English), Colleen Barry (Student Affairs), Meg Bausman (Libraries), Sarah Craver (Education Abroad), Rebecca Collier (Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts, BMCC), Alexis Diaz (School of Social Work), Sherri Farber (Libraries), Iris Finkel (Libraries), Linda Gerena (World Languages, Literatures, and Humanities, York), Jennifer Gilken (Teacher Education, BMCC), Kristen Hodnett (Special Education), Jack Kenigsberg (English), Raj Korpan (Computer Science), Shiao-Chuan Kung (Center for Online Learning), Vicki Lens (Social Work), Gina Levitan (Libraries), Ingrid Lundeen (Anthropology), Marcia Liu (Asian American Studies), Stephanie Margolin (Libraries), Ellen McCabe (Nursing), Noran Mohamed (Romance Languages), Adina Mulliken (Libraries), Angela Padilla (Skirball Science Learning Center/Physics & Astronom), Jaya Rachwani (Physical Therapy), Gina Riley (SPED), Salvador Ruiz (Special Education), Logan Spevak (Center for Online Learning), Edgar Troudt (Curriculum and Teaching), Julie Van Peteghem (Romance Languages), Samantha Walsh (Libraries), Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck (English)
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