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With Zoom-bombing a cultural phenomenon, here’s how to protect your meetings. Author: Dan Goodin Posted on: Date: 4/2/2020 “With the coronavirus pandemic forcing millions of people to work, learn, and socialize from home, Zoom conferences are becoming a default method to connect. And with popularity comes abuse. Enter Zoom-bombing, the phenomenon of trolls intruding into other people’s meetings for the…

According to Bonwell and Eison (1991), active learning instructional strategies include a wide range of activities that share the common elements of “involving students in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing.” But…

During my first semester in the active learning classroom, I realised how difficult it can be to implement successful and effective activities. As a CEGEP teacher, I often assume that students master the task, the strategies needed to process information or the cooperative abilities to manage the interactions. Well, think again! Students may need modelling, guidance and scaffolding when faced…

It was the age of flipped classrooms, it was the age of active learning. Here’s my story… The week before, I asked my students to watch a video and take a test so that they could prepare for next class. My plan was to do a quick review of the material. Then, the students would work in teams on problems…

As you implement active learning strategies in your classroom, you may be worried about student resistance. This situation may not directly be about the new strategies you use in class but rather that: Students may be experiencing active learning strategies with little to no training or practical experience in how to participate as a student in this situation; Busy students…

You want to turn your classroom into an active learning environment – one where students understand, construct and apply knowledge, analyze, evaluate and create, instead of an environment where they spend most of their time listening – but you’re apprehensive and unsure? What does the process of change look like? How can you find the support and tools you need?…