4.1

A part of 4.1 Lightning Talk session Janelle Joseph, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education This session highlights initial findings from a leadership program that invites students who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) women at U of T to a movement experience centered around their physical and mental wellness. The program offers learning with and through the body, filling a gap in leadership programs that are overly sedentary and movement programs that are devoid of discussion about leadership skills --even as they are inherent or metaphorical to the movements being performed. Since leaders [...]

A part of 4.1 Lightning Talk session Vicki Zhang, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Statistical Sciences, FAS I have been championing the pedagogy of narrative mathematics since 2016. In this new first-year seminar course, I deepened this practice by enlisting various forms of media and arts to actively immerse my students in their journey of exploring basic financial math. Students in this course are highly diverse in their academic background, and therefore such a teaching strategy serves two immediate purposes: (1) for students from the humanities, it breaks down the complex financial concepts into less intimidating, relatable human stories; [...]

A part of 4.1 Lightning Talk session Daveeda Goldberg, Sessional (CUPE 3902, Unit 3)/CLTA, ELL, FAS Back in the 1970s, Marshall McLuhan argued that TV, film and radio represented a new "electronic culture," and that this constituted a return to "the Oral," that is, a return to synchroneity, to village mentality, and, following from those, a return to egalitarian, intimate, and immediate communication. However, from a more contemporary p.o.v, it might seem that McLuhan was just wrong, and that, instead of turning up the volume on the Oral, digital communication has re-enlivened a Print-like, asynchronous culture of communication [...]