Interactive Workshop

Nicole  Birch-Bayley, Educational Developer, Career Learning, Career Exploration & Education, Student Life, Kelci Archibald, Lead Coordinator, Career Education, Career Exploration & Education, Student Life, Jon Bray, Career Educator, Career Exploration & Education, Student Life In a time of rapid change and socioeconomic uncertainty, engaging students as partners in conversations about career development—both within and outside of the university classroom—is more crucial than ever before to fostering well-being and hope (Piotti, DeFelice, & Jackson, 2022). While there is growing scholarship on the Students as Partners (SaP) model in higher education, the application of this framework within the context of career development remains underexplored [...]

Rahul Bhat, Centre for Learning Strategy Support, Resilience Program Lead, Alexander Bowie, Centre for Learning Strategy Support, Learning Strategist, Resilience Focus, Ellyn Kerr, Centre for Learning Strategy Support, Learning Strategist, Grad and Professional Programs, Vivian Zhang, Centre for Learning Strategy Support, Learning Strategist, Innis College Generative AI is reshaping how we teach and how students learn. This workshop invites instructors to consider: How can we navigate tensions between monitoring unethical and learning-ineffectual AI use and equipping students to make informed, learning-supportive decisions about using AI? How might we shift from deficit or control models that focus primarily on risks, to embrace [...]

Erin Vearncombe, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy, University of Toronto Mississauga, Jennifer Ross, Woodsworth College, Transitional Year Programme, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Digital Humanities and Writing "“Play” and “work” appear as opposites: work is comprised of rigorous, accomplishment-oriented activity whereas play is unstructured activity for its own sake, a voluntary behaviour directed at personal enjoyment. Scholarship on play in education, however, shifts our perspective such that neat divisions between work and play are constructively blurred. Koops and Taggart, for example, view play “as activities and dispositions that allow for trying out ideas without immediate judgment [...]

Alexandra Guerson, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, New College, Tyson Seburn, Assistant Director, International Programs, New College, Melissa Levin, Assistant Professor Teaching Stream, New College, Jeff Newman, College Librarian, New College Classrooms, in both form and content, are never neutral spaces. Inayatullah (2022) reminds us that educational institutions have historically been sites of imperialist production, with teachers as its agents. The pedagogical imperative to disrupt this relationship demands deliberate strategies and approaches that seek to facilitate social change. De-colonial and anti-colonial thought and pedagogies are, at their cores, attempts to re-envision what we do in the classroom and beyond as tools for [...]

Jasjit Sangha, Educational Developer, Anti-racist Pedagogy, Center for Teaching and Learning, UTSC, Diana Pearson, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator, EDIO, University of Toronto Scarborough In Hope Circuits Ridell (2024) states: “As members of the academy, we are hard-wired for hope – to teach it, to share it, and to imagine a better future” (17). However, the actual process of creating hope can be fraught, especially for anti-racist educators who are striving to change the teaching culture of post-secondary institutions and address historical injustice. Doing anti-racist work often requires contending with one’s own experiences of racial, and other forms of, trauma which may manifest [...]