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Use Generative Artificial Intelligence (Genai) To Learn: A Presentation Deck For Learners, Brett Whysel Aug 2024

Use Generative Artificial Intelligence (Genai) To Learn: A Presentation Deck For Learners, Brett Whysel

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This presentation explores the effective and ethical use of Large Language Models (LLMs) by students, in higher education. It covers the purpose of higher education, the potential use cases of LLMs as tutors, editors, creative directors, and coaches, and offers guidance on how to use these tools to enhance learning while avoiding common pitfalls. The presentation also emphasizes the importance of critical thinking, ethical considerations, and prompt engineering in maximizing the benefits of LLMs while maintaining academic integrity.


Edc 2400 Teaching Emergent Bilingual, Ivana Espinet May 2024

Edc 2400 Teaching Emergent Bilingual, Ivana Espinet

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This is a syllabus for the course "Teaching Emergent Bilinguals". This course explores language acquisition theories, the historical, philosophical, and pedagogical evolution of how educational institutions have approached their work with emergent bilinguals, and pedagogical strategies for teaching emergent bilinguals. It focuses on the role of educators in supporting emergent bilinguals’ learning language and literacy across content.


Unshackling Our Youth Through Love And Mutual Recognition: Notes From An Undergraduate Class On School Discipline Inspired By Ta-Nehisi Coates And Bell Hooks, Gene Fellner, Mark Comesañas, Tahjuan Ferrell Mar 2024

Unshackling Our Youth Through Love And Mutual Recognition: Notes From An Undergraduate Class On School Discipline Inspired By Ta-Nehisi Coates And Bell Hooks, Gene Fellner, Mark Comesañas, Tahjuan Ferrell

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This research essay challenges educators to embrace mutual recognition when interacting with students. Our data are the words of the young people who participated with us in one particular undergraduate class on school discipline at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, in the United States in the fall of 2022. Tahjuan, who had been our student in the 7th grade in 2011, co-taught the class with us. In writing this essay and in teaching the class, we were inspired by a short passage fromTa-Nehisi Coates about the shackling young people of color endure and another, by bell hooks, that proposes …


Motivation, Learning, And The Workplace: A Study Of Community College Student Affairs Professionals And Continued Professional Learning, Joseph M. Ginese Jan 2024

Motivation, Learning, And The Workplace: A Study Of Community College Student Affairs Professionals And Continued Professional Learning, Joseph M. Ginese

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Continued professional learning is a consistent focus of attention for the field of student affairs within higher education. Yet, very little research has been conducted on the factors that influence the motivation of student affairs professionals to pursue continued professional learning, especially professionals within community colleges. This study utilized a quantitative research design to examine the physical and psychological factors of the work environment that can influence a community college student affairs professional’s motivation to pursue continued professional learning. Through the theoretical lens of Lewin’s Field Theory and Eccles’ Expectancy-Value Theory, I designed a 58-item survey (N = 41) …