Exploring What It Means to Teach 21st Century Students
 DIIA
has been talking about teaching 21st century students for a long
time.
Now, it seems everybody is talking about it.
Educause, a nonprofit association
committed to “promoting the intelligent use of information
technology,” lists
many titles with a certain familiar theme—Authentic Learning
for the 21st Century; Faculty Work for the 21st Century; How to
Use What We Know: 21st Century Faculty and Students. [more]
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Engaging minds, encouraging
success
DIIA integrates the resources of three university centers to enhance teaching effectiveness, support innovative technology-enhanced learning, offer a comprehensive portfolio of instructional support services, provide and expand assessment methods, and coordinate Web-based outreach efforts.
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Do Try This at Home: Instructional Assessment Web Site Empowers
Instructors To Examine Teaching Myths
At
the opening of the popular Discovery Channel program Mythbusters,
the two central cast members deliver a predictable disclaimer that
viewers should not try at home anything they see on the show, which
consists of an hour of popular science applied in the testing of
urban legends—particularly ones that involve combustibles
and explosives. At the opening of DIIA’s Instructional
Assessment Resources (IAR) Web site, you’ll find no such
disclaimer, though its purpose is analogous: to see that no teaching
myths are considered un-testable. For teachers, DIIA believes,
busting pedagogy myths should be very much a hands-on enterprise.
Winner of TA Award Values ASPECTS Focus on Teaching Excellence
Hilkovitz has been living in the past, and as a result she’s
helping bring undergraduate teaching at UT Austin into the future. Hilkovitz’s past includes two years of service as a Teach
for America corps member, when she soaked up pre-service training,
on-the-job experience, and in-service mentoring in discovering
a passion for teaching that hasn’t faded. Her future includes
completing all seven of DIIA’s ASPECTS certificate
programs, by penning summary essays sure to contain insights
into how even an experienced, resourceful teacher can still find
more to learn about innovative pedagogy.
Team-Based Learning Emerging as a Sweet Approach to Innovative Teaching
If
you were to accuse DIIA instructional consultant Michael Sweet
of encouraging groupthink, he’d surely just smile. For more than
a decade Sweet has been helping teachers across scholarly disciplines
employ Team-Based
Learning (TBL), an exciting teaching strategy for promoting
active learning in undergraduate classes. Now, Sweet has teamed
with Larry Michaelsen to produce an article on the power of Team-Based
Learning for the June newsletter of the National Education Association: Thriving
in Academe—Reflections on Helping Students Learn. Production
of Thriving in Academe is a collaborative initiative of the National
Education Association and the Professional and Organizational Development
Network in Higher Education.
CSI: Texas—DIIA’s Fingerprints Turning Up in Varied Places
When
the UT Learning Center envisioned launching a new Web site, they
knew someone to turn to for help. When Survey Monkey envisioned
offering a best-practices primer for its customers, they knew where
to look for help. When Leslie Jarmon envisioned empowering graduate
students with digital media skills, she knew how to find help.
And when CIE’s University Extension Office (UEX) envisioned
transitioning online courses to the Blackboard system, they knew
they didn’t have to look very far for help.
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