DALC | Dawson Active Learning Community

Are you curious about Active Learning and want to know what it is? This session will take a beginners look at the what, how and why of Active Learning. No experience or prior understanding of AL is required and no active learning classroom is required. All are welcome!

Drop-in and share what you are doing, hear from colleagues about what they are doing, and give each other feedback on how to improve teaching and learning.

Fall 2019 – These sessions are part of the regular ‘Show, tell & feedback’ meetings that are being held on the 1st Friday of each month in Fall 2019

Types of Presentations

• CAT’s – Come and explore Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) as a tool for Active Learning. This session will be a co-presentation of OAD and the DALC Fellows and it is intended for beginner AL teachers – whether you’re in an AL classroom or not.
• Best of SALTISE – Come and explore a variety of active learning strategies in a “Cracker Barrel” session format in which instructors teaching in various disciplines with a variety of active learning strategies will show their stuff. Attendees will get first hand experience on several AL strategies.

Fall 2019 – These sessions are part of the regular ‘Active Strategies that Work’ meetings that are being held on the 2nd Friday of each month in Fall 2019.

Types of presentations

• Branching Scenarios – Join us for an exploration of “Branching Scenarios”: immersive virtual simulations that allow students to experience the consequences of different choices while engaged in a risk-free online environment. Used frequently in medical fields, this strategy can be applied to a wide variety of disciplines and topics.

Fall 2019 – This session is part of the regular ‘Advanced Topics in Active Learning’ meetings that are being held on the 3rd Friday of each month in Fall 2019.

Types of presentations

• E-learning – Online technologies offer potential for complementing and/or improving Active Learning. Join us for an interactive asynchronous e-learning workshop in which we explore the use of online learning. This session will be given in collaboration with the Dawson e-learning initiative and will be held entirely online (so you can wear your pyjamas if you like!).
• Using and Managing Cell Phones in the AL classroom – Cell phones are notorious for their ability to distract our students’ attention away from the task at hand – and yet they can be powerful aids to learning if used correctly. Join us for an exploration of the ways to tap into the positive/productive potential of cell phones in the Active Learning classroom.

Fall 2019 – These sessions are part of the regular ‘Active Learning and Technology’ meetings that are being held on the 4th Friday of each month in Fall 2019.