Lightning Talk – TLS 2022

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 [...]

A part of 2.3 Lightning Talk session Catherine Barrette, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Rotman School of Management Katherine Hovdestad, B.Com 2022, Co-Head TA for RSM 222 course Every year, we would observe the attendance to in-person tutorial dropping significantly as the term goes on. By the time of the mid-term, attendance would be 10% or lower. However, during the pandemic and moving the tutorial online, we noted an increase in attendance. This prompted us to review the tutorial format and move our tutorial content to an asynchronous mode (Khan Academy style). We worked to develop over 20 asynchronous [...]

A part of 2.2 Lightning Talk session Krista Maxwell, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, FAS Katherine Patton, Assistant Professor Teaching Stream, Anthropology, FAS As anthropologists, we are increasingly aware of the importance of challenging our discipline’s historical and ongoing complicity in settler colonialism in our teaching as well as our research. Here, we propose a teaching model that centers often marginalized expertise and experience as a tool for learning disciplinary historical consciousness and reflexivity that may be of interest to other disciplines. At the heart of our newly-developed online course Anthropologists & Indigenous Peoples in North America are five guest [...]

A part of 2.2 Lightning Talk session Naomi Levy-strumpf, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Human Biology Program, FAS Maria Papaconstantinou, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Human Biology Program, FAS Asking a good question is not a trivial task. It requires deep comprehension and concept integration. To facilitate critical thinking and mastering of foundational concepts in a large Genetics course (~1000 students), we decided to actively engage students in question creation. We used “Quizzical”, an online platform developed by Prof. Dan Riggs. Via this platform, students are tasked with the creation of multiple-choice questions. For each of the suggested answer choices, [...]

A part of 2.2 Lightning Talk session William Ju, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Human Biology Program, FAS Ron Wilson Jr. Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Human Biology Program, FAS During the shift to online teaching use of the use of student chats during synchronous delivery and Discussion Boards for asynchronous engagement have increased greatly. These platforms, among many, are powerful ways for students to engage in peer to peer teaching and learning. One of the teaching methods that we have previously employed in courses (both online and in-person), has been to incorporate intentional mistakes as well as introducing misconceptions [...]