Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Lunchtime Seminar
Providing an opportunity for faculty, graduate students, and professional staff to gather with colleagues to listen, discuss, comment, interact and reflect on a variety of topics to enhance teaching and learning.
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers the following workshop:
Can Students Produce New Knowledge?
Lisa Blansett, English (First-Year Writing)
Does a stack of student essays read like the same paper over and over again? Is the written work students submit overwhelmed by tedious summaries of what scholars have written? We’ll discuss ways to tweak your writing assignments so each student develops a stake in the outcome, generating a unique approach to the essay topic proposed. The old version of Bloom’s Taxonomy topped out at “evaluation” but the updated version (2001) identifies “create” as the pinnacle of learning. In that version, “create” is narrated as “generating,” “planning,” and “producing”; these are further glossed as hypothesizing, designing, and constructing. How might we translate these objectives into assignments for writing projects (and yet stay away from asking students to write fiction or poetry)? We’ll discuss ways to help students generate new knowledge and situate themselves in academic conversations across the curriculum. Ultimately, we will add a new word to Bloom’s (Anderson’s & Krathwol’s) taxonomy: contribution.
Wednesday, September 30th
11:15-1:10pm
ROWE Center, room 318
A boxed lunch will be provided. If you have special dietary needs (vegetarian, gluten free, or both) please e-mail Stacey Valliere. Requests made within 7 days of seminar will not be honored.
Registration is required.
To register and view more workshops, please visit http://itl.uconn.edu/seminars/.
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu