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* ABSTRACT
Program Room
8:30
Registration,Sign-in, and Coffee
9:00
Opening Session
What's Going on In That Head of Yours?
In this session, Robert Duke will explain that changes in the functional capacities of learners are visible manifestations of changes in the physical structure of the brain. Although we seldom think of learning experiences as brain-reorganization activities, they most certainly are precisely that. We'll consider how to design learning experiences that lead to advantageous changes in cognition, affect, and behavior, all of which are components of expertise in every discipline.
10:00
10 Minutes to 10 Hours: Helping Students "Get It" in Ways Big and Small
Irma Van Scoy
All of the Responsibility and
None of the Authority:
Pre-empting and Managing the
Pitfalls in Student Team Work
Karen Mallia
From Molecules to Marshes in Two
Semesters - A Salkehatchie Perspective on Freshman Biology
Eran Kilpatrick
E-Portfolio: Assessment of
Student Competency
in a BSW Capstone Course
Susan Parlier
11:00
Community Engaged Service in and Beyond the Classroom: Restoration of a 1930's Art Deco Theater in Allendale
Karen Heid
Task the Task, and Test the Test
Wei-Kai Lai
Science Inside and Outside the Classroom: Involving Students and Reaching Out to the Community
Helene Maire-Afeli
11:30
I'll Give It a Try!:
Creating ePortfolios in Blackboard
Sara Corwin
Where Should
Beyond-the-Classroom Go?
Pearl Fernandes
Critical Interactives: Interdisciplinary
Classroom Teaching in Computer Science and the Humanities
Heidi Rae Cooley & Duncan Buell
12:00
Robert Duke
Lunch & Keynote Address:
Why Students Don't Learn What We Think We Teach
Robert Duke's talk is based on Jerome Bruner's observation that "The school boy learning physics is a physicist, and it is easier for him to learn physics by behaving like a physicist than doing anything else."Since that time, research in psychology and neuroscience has deepened our understanding of the fundamental principles of human learning. Yet much of what we do in public and private education at all levels of instruction seems to effectively ignore these principles. What's up with that? Join us for lunch to hear what Dr. Duke has to say about teaching and learning.
Robert Duke is the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor and Head of Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Elizabeth Shatto Massey Distinguished Fellow in Teacher Education, and Director of the Center for Music Learning. He is also a member of the faculty and director of the Psychology of Learning Program at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles. His research on human learning and behavior spans multiple disciplines, including motor skill learning, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. His most recent work explores procedural memory consolidation and the cognitive processes engaged during musical improvisation. He is the author of Scribe 4 behavior analysis software, and his most recent books are Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction and The Habits of Musicianship, which he co-authored with Jim Byo of Louisiana State University.
1:30
Classroom
Response Systems - Clickers in the Large Lecture
David Tedeschi
Service-Learning: A
Pathway to Integrative Learning
in the Classroom
Dottie Weigel
Fieldwork and Placed-Based Education: Opportunities for Beyond the Classroom Learning
Stephen Criswell
2:00
Big Picture Thinking in a One-Page Outline: Teaching Students to Write for their Discipline
Michelle Maher
Use of Integrative Learning
for Educators
Matthew Irvin
Service-Learning and
Online Courses: The
Challenges and Success of Blending
Ideas in Non-traditional Settings
Elise Lewis
Task-Based Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Xiaohu Wu
2:30
Can you Hear Me Now?
Developing New Courses in Response to Industry Needs
Karen Edwards
Wikipedia: A Valuable
Teaching Tool!
Karen Patten & Lynn Keane
Regional Campuses Faculty Fellows Cohort Meeting
Task-Based Foreign Language Teaching and Learning - CONTINUED
3:00
Content-related Blogging and
Course-related Performance
Kathleen Kirasic
Pedagogical Approaches to
Enhance Learning in
Service-Learning Courses
Aidyn Iachini
Using Google Tools
to Enhance Interaction
Ed Gatzke