Active Teaching Lab

Active Teaching Lab Archive

About Active Teaching Lab

Active Teaching Lab provides instructors an opportunity to learn from other educators. Each month a UWM instructor shares how they utilized a cool tool or a teaching strategy in a course and the outcome: what worked, what was hard, what was learned through the process, and what they’d do differently.

After the short presentation, attendees will learn how to use the tool or strategy shared and have the opportunity to unpack the pedagogy informing it.

Active Teaching Lab is held the first Wednesday of the Month, 9:00 – 10:00am – in B73 Engelmann Hall and live via Zoom!

REGISTRATION: The Labs are open to all. Registration is not required, but is appreciated

LIVE: Not able to make it to a Lab? Fear not! All Labs will be recorded and handouts will be made available electronically below.

Spring 2024 Schedule

 

Writing, AI and Rhetorical Thinking Across the Disciplines

April 3  | Shevaun Watson and David Kocik
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Interested in helping students write better research papers, lab reports, or essays, even with the prevalence of AI? This workshop is for you.

Join us April 3rd as Shevaun Watson and David Kocik from the English department show us how to merge the realms of artificial intelligence and rhetorical thinking to enhance student writing. Shevaun and David will begin with an examination of the concept of rhetorical focus – writing that is purpose-driven, audience-oriented, and context-sensitive. Next, through hands-on activities, we’ll use this understanding of rhetoric to revise AI-generated content in a way that infuses it with nuance, detail, and complexity.

This workshop is not a ‘how to’ of AI writing shortcuts. Instead, we’ll leave equipped with strategies to create more compelling writing assignments, and ideas to help students utilize AI for producing sophisticated and audience-specific prose – not generic simplistic text.

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Generative AI, Academic Libraries, and Student Research

May 1  | UWM Library Staff
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In an age of information abundance, should libraries manage and provide access to information? In an age of generative AI, should students learn how to find, evaluate, and use information? Join members of the UWM libraries for a facilitated discussion to empower you to move beyond pro/con thinking about AI and student research. We’ll lead you through guided reflections to arrive at a disciplinary and student-centered approach that you can apply to improve your next research paper assignments.

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