Inclusive professional development strategies for Military Family Learners - Glynita Bell - Building on the content from the “Promoting Classroom Inclusion for Military Family Learners” teaching talk, this teaching talk will expand on actionable strategies that faculty and mentors can use to promote inclusive, culturally response professional development. Attendees will also learn ways to strengthen social capital among military family learners.
From Curiosity to Inquiry: “This is about Skyrim?” Part 2 - Seth Hudson - This talk—the second of a two-part series—follows the coursework students engage after completing the “What do scholars talk about when they talk about Skyrim?” outlined in Part 1. Departing from the traditional final paper that often expects students to write in an unfamiliar genre (as ‘Game Studies’ includes scholars and writers from a range of disciplines), this project challenged students to create an entry for Fifty Key Video Games (Perron et al, 2022). Armed with the experience (and co-created slide decks) from our collaborative library session, students move forward with agency to explore their chosen “51st Key Video Game” and see what scholars have to say about it, across disciplines and (when appropriate) beyond the academy. This talk will review the series of related exercises developed to provide significant instruction and operationalize the lessons learned in our initial Skyrim session, as well as address issues encountered—by students and instructors alike—in the process. Audience: Instructors interested in reframing student writing as a communication of informed inquiry, rather than a detailed imitation of existing work by established scholars will find this session—and its companion talk in Part 1—useful. Additionally, instructors looking to provide significant instruction in writing and related research activities will leave with new strategies on building coursework around student engagement, rather than a target product. Takeaway: Instructors will leave this session with new ideas for building assignments/exercises to enhance student agency in research, transforming their curiosity into inquiry.
Writing Respectfully about Race and Racism: Using the Writing Center's Resources - Courtney Massie - This teaching talk orients viewers to the Writing Center's guide to writing respectfully about race and racism and its companion resource for Mason faculty that provides strategies for using the guide in their courses. Created and revised in 2022 and piloted in select courses in 2023-24 through a series of Stearns Center ARIE grants, the guide is designed to foster a process of personal reflection, self-education, and structural thinking for students undertaking writing assignments related to race and racism in the United States. The companion resource offers concrete suggestions for how to assign and discuss the guide, use it when designing writing assignments, and tailor use of the guide to different student audiences.
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