The summer semester book club selection, Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum, promises to give us much food for thought as we contemplate the idea of ungrading and critique the entire notion of grading students. Join us via Zoom every Wednesday, May 12 to June […]
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TCDC Book Club: The New Education (T222) 4:30pm
As we look toward the spring 2020 APAG conference with the theme of Future Thinking, TCDC’s book club choice is centred on that very theme: future directions in post-secondary. We will explore Cathy N. Davidson’s The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux (2017), an exploration of […]
TCDC Book Club: Creating Self-Regulated Learners
Do you ever wish your students would spend just a little more time reviewing graded papers, exams, homework assignments and practice quizzes to identify and address gaps in their understanding? Would you like more of your students to be able to reflect on, monitor and assess their learning and study strategies so they can be […]
Real Voices Make it Stick
A multidisciplinary group of Langara faculty members from the TCDC book club gathered regularly to discuss and unpack myths about learning while uncovering new strategies for increasing knowledge retention and information retrieval among their students. In the audio clip below, participants share personal thoughts and takeaways on the reading circle and the book titled, “Make it […]
Langara Book Club: Indigenous Storywork
Leading up to this year’s APAG conference, join the Langara Book Club to explore keynote speaker Jo-Ann Archibald’s Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit. Dr. Archibald, also known by her Stó:lō name Q’um Q’um Xiiem, is a member of the Soowahlie and Xaxli’p First Nations. She spent her career helping to advance […]
TCDC Book Club: Make It Stick
Would you like to find out how to help your students (and yourself) learn more effectively and increase knowledge retention? Would you like to discover some new learning and practice strategies that can be applied right away in your class? In Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, two psychologists and a storyteller, Henry […]
TCDC Book Club: How Learning Works
Ever wondered how students’ prior knowledge (or misunderstandings) and the ways they organize new information impact their learning? Curious about what factors motivate students to learn? Want to know more about which types of practice and feedback actually enhance learning, or how you can help your students become self-directed learners?
TCDC & Ed Tech Monthly Workshop and Events Calendar
View the TCDC and Ed Tech monthly events calendar (https://iweb.langara.ca/tcdc-dev/calendar/) for event listings and the link to register. Or go straight to registration here: TCDC registration or EdTech registration