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Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences For First Year Students, Ann Marie Smeraldi, Claudia Lilie
Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences For First Year Students, Ann Marie Smeraldi, Claudia Lilie
Ann Marie Smeraldi
With only 55.5% of U.S. college students graduating with a bachelor’s degree within 6 years there is an obvious need for interventions that will help students adjust to college culture and teach learning habits that foster students’ abilities to persist to graduation. This presentation will illuminate the process of weaving together study skills, a common reading book and life on a college campus to design a cohesive first year seminar that facilitates student success.
Making It Click: Using An Audience Response System To Engage Students And Assess Learning, Ann Marie Smeraldi
Making It Click: Using An Audience Response System To Engage Students And Assess Learning, Ann Marie Smeraldi
Ann Marie Smeraldi
As accessibility to technology in the classroom increases and promises to improve student engagement and performance, it is easy to be tempted into using wikis, blogs and clickers without fully understanding the implications of their use. Librarians and other educators continuously experiment with new technologies in an attempt to lure Millennials away from their iPods and cell phones, but without careful consideration of the pedagogy that supports the use of these new technologies, their effectiveness as learning tools is diminished. This session will focus on the use of an audience response system (“clickers”) to engage students in active learning during …