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Abstracts - Room 120
All sessions take place in Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus ~ Enticing Students to Express Ideas: Creating Joy of Learning in the Humanities STANDARD SESSION (45-60 minutes) Presenter: Dr. Petra Dewitt - Assistant Professor of History & Political Science; Missouri S&T Tags: positive learning environment; humanities; freedom of expression; personal opinions; student creativity Audience: K-12; Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH 120 The presentation provides suggestions to educators in the humanities on how they can make learning joyful for students. One focus will be the creation of a positive learning environment in the classroom that encourages questioning, freedom of expression, and participation. The second focus will be homework assignments that can become learning tools by appealing to students’ creative minds and asking them to express personal opinions. ~ Don't Blame Your Students: Redesign Your Class STANDARD SESSION (45-60 minutes) Presenter: Dr. Irina Ivliyeva - Associate Professor of Arts, Language (Russian), & Philosophy; Missouri S&T Tags: course design; student motivation; gamification framework Audience: K-12; Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH 120 In this presentations we will re-visit the key principles (the three Cs: communication, collaboration, content) and identify the structural elements to effective course design in face-to-face and blended classes. Students’ motivation, self-confidence, and teamwork will be examined through A. Marczewski’s Gamification Framework. Using the Seven Principles of Good Teaching (1996), we will categorize multimodal curriculum delivery methods and offer pedagogical recommendations to maximize learning outcomes in the interactive collaborative learning environment. Participants will leave with real classroom examples and practical user-friendly resources applicable across disciplines. ~ Sometimes a Step Forward Requires a Step Sideways: Early Intervention in Calculus I STANDARD SESSION (45-60 minutes) Presenters: Tags: blended learning; student success; course design Audience: Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH 120 At Missouri S&T, less than 10% of students with a D or F in Calculus I at midterm finished the course with a grade of C or better in recent semesters. Additionally, students who earn below a C in the course on their first attempt have only passed on their second attempt 55% of the time in the past decade. To address this major concern, we implemented an early intervention program in Fall 2015 which moves at-risk students out of traditional Calculus I and into a blended replacement course called “Success for Calculus.” This program provides students with a structured opportunity to improve their mathematical preparedness and overall student success skills while reinforcing the calculus they saw during the first half of the semester. This session will include preliminary data from the first semester along with feedback from students. ~ Pre-Service Teachers' and K-12 Administrators' Perceptions of Student Media Monitoring STANDARD SESSION (45-60 minutes) Presenters: Tags: social media; pre-service teachers; school administrators; education preparation Audience: K-12; Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 9:45 - 10:30 a.m., Friday, March 18, BCH 120 Our session will present research regarding both pre-service teachers' perceptions and K-12 administrators' perceptions concerning monitoring of teachers' social media interactions with students. We hope our research findings will help pre-service teachers develop an awareness of their social media presence as well as help Educator Preparation Programs encourage students to develop self-regulation techniques for monitoring their own social media use. The session will be divided into two sections to illustrate the perspectives of each side with an opportunity to discuss similarities and differences in the closing section. ~ Learning to Learn Circuit Analysis STANDARD SESSION (45-60 minutes) Presenter: Dr. B.J. Shrestha - Associate Teaching Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Missouri S&T Tags: brainstorming; active learning; learning by facing challenges; cognition; mathematical modeling; state function; transformation matrix; Eigen function expansion; agent of change Audience: K-12; Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 10:45 - 11:30 a.m., Friday, March 18, BCH 120 The idea and techniques of learning how to learn is a subject of wide interest among educator, researchers, and scholars across the board. Among the researchers, there has been a lot of novel ideas such as super-learning, etc. This presentation is about some approaches to enhance learning techniques in a circuit analysis course, however, the methods are pretty generic to be of interest to a wider audience. |
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