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March 14 Teaching & Learning Newsletter

Mar 15, 2019, 08:24 AM
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Announcements

Create Your Own Online Course Workshop Begins April 17

CITL will be hosting theCreate Your Own Online Courseworkshop onApril 17, 18, & 19 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. each day. This is open to faculty, staff, eLearning Professionals, and TAs who want to learn best practices for creating an online course. The workshop is free of charge. You can attend in person, or there will be an option to join remotely via a Zoom web-conferencing session. This is a particularly good opportunity for anyone interested in earningthe Certificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching.PleaseRSVPfor the workshop by April 15.

Draft List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students

The Draft List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students for Fall 2018 and Winter 2018-2019 is available atgo.illinois.edu/lotrae. The final List will be in the Daily Illini on March 25th. If your course is missing, please check your Instructor Report against the criteria in the Draft List. At least 5 students must have completed relevant item(s) and you must have filled in the relevant release bubble on the Faculty Request Form. For questions or corrections, emailices@illinois.eduor call 244-3846.
CITL Events & Workshops

Want to see what workshops and events are coming later in the semester?Look at our full calendar for more information.

Tuesday, March 26
Developing a Teaching Philosophy Statement for a Faculty Job Search
9:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M., room 428,Armory
Speaker: Lucas Anderson (CITL)

Tuesday, March 26
Building the Past: Using Design Applications and Virtual Reality in the Social Studies Classroom
4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M., Innovation Studio (room 172, Armory)
Speaker: Andrew Wilson (University Laboratory High School)
Thursday, March 28
Leverage High-Impact Learning with ePortfolio
12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M., Innovation Studio (room 172, Armory)
Speaker: Kate LaBore (CITL)
Monday, April 1
The Power of Presentations: Enhancing your Slides for Teaching and Engagement
2:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M., Innovation Studio (room 172, Armory)
Speaker: Jamie Nelson (CITL)
CITL Technical Training
Technical training does not count for workshop hours towards theGraduate Teacher Certificateor theCertificate in Foundations of Teaching, but may count towards theCertificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching.
Friday, March 29
Emerging Tech Hands-on: 3D Printing/Design
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M., TechHub (Armory Building, room 151A)
Speakers: Jamie Nelson & Lisette Chapa
Wednesday, April 3
Beginners Soldering Workshop
4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M., Innovation Studio (Armory Building, room 172)
Speaker: Amanda Elzbieciak (CU Community Fablab)
Training Opportunities Across Campus
Want to see what training opportunitiesexistacross campus? Though they don't count for CITL certificate credit, they can help you develop important technical and professional skills.Look at the Illinois Staff Training Calendar for more information.Also check outthe Savvy Researcher Series,andGraduate College Events.
Wednesday, March 27
Getting the Most Out of Your Advisor Relationship
3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M., room 1090, Lincoln Hall
Sponsor: Graduate College Career Development
Monday, April 1
Poster Presentation and Design
12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M., room 314, Main Library
Sponsor: University Library - Scholarly Commons
Teaching Tips

Can't or Won't: The Culture of Helplessness

We might provide the most detailed of instructions, but students will still find a reason to challenge those instructions as inadequate and shift the responsibility of the work to us, writes Lori Isbell. She reports about the increasing “helplessness” of our students and their tendency to send emails and text messages of all sorts with the most basic questions about the most obvious matters. It is a helplessness, I believe, that is part feigned and part real, but nevertheless it is a problem that is eroding academe. Students and faculty then bat back and forth of who is responsibility for the clarity of a task.Yet that is not necessarily because the students lack academicability-- although that may be true as well at the community college level -- but because they lack academicagency, it seems.They are unable or unwilling to recognize their own role in developing college skills, in earning a college education.

Research Highlights How Easily, Readily Students Fabricate Excuses

When students are unable to comply with some aspect of an academic task (e.g. due date, assignment length, quality of work), there is potential for them to communicate reasons as to why they were unable to complete the task to their instructor. At this point the students have a choice, in which case they can either provide legitimate reasons for not being able to complete or to submit their coursework, or they can communicate something which is a deliberate attempt to deceive the instructor.This study found that individuals do engage in reporting claims in an attempt to deceive their instructor even when motivated by academic tasks with low academic consequences and, possibly more alarmingly, that many students possess great confidence in their abilities to “get away with” reporting fraudulent claims.
 

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