This is a great post. I love the advice of smiling to yourself. Mine has always been so a few jumping jacks before a speech to lighten up and bring good energy.
Vicky, thanks for your terrific post. The word that stood out for me is "presence." This is what the "AI can teach and do everything" advocates miss. Our human presence.
The Community of Inquiry Framework guided my teaching. Developed to explain online teaching roles in providing valuable learning experiences for students, applies in person as well. (https://www.thecommunityofinquiry.org/framework) They describe three inter-related ways to understand presence. Social presence means you create a non-judgmental learning environment, communicate clearly, are friendly and approachable. Cognitive presence means you encourage critical and creative thinking, and intellectual growth. Teaching presence means you carry out the activities associated with instruction, facilitation, selection of readings and design of engaging learning activities, and fair assessment.
Think about the amazing professors you've had - how were they present for you and your learning journey? Think about the not-so-good ones - where did they fall down? Were they out of balance, maybe too "social" and not enough "cognitive" presence? Or all teaching and no social presence, so the class seemed flat and boring? Using this framework helped me stay attentive to the balance.
Janet - thank you so much for your wonderful comment and the link and thoughts yiu shared as well! You are so right to discuss human presence. No AI tool can ever replace the human factor! Thank you very much ✨⭐️
Wow!!! Once again wow, Vicky! Tips after wise tips and what a fantastic idea to combine the songs with the topic! I am so in love with this idea! Ingenious! Thank you for another Saturday!!!
This is a great post. I love the advice of smiling to yourself. Mine has always been so a few jumping jacks before a speech to lighten up and bring good energy.
Oooh that’s a great thing to do, Jackie - and thank you so much for your comment and kind words!
Vicky, thanks for your terrific post. The word that stood out for me is "presence." This is what the "AI can teach and do everything" advocates miss. Our human presence.
The Community of Inquiry Framework guided my teaching. Developed to explain online teaching roles in providing valuable learning experiences for students, applies in person as well. (https://www.thecommunityofinquiry.org/framework) They describe three inter-related ways to understand presence. Social presence means you create a non-judgmental learning environment, communicate clearly, are friendly and approachable. Cognitive presence means you encourage critical and creative thinking, and intellectual growth. Teaching presence means you carry out the activities associated with instruction, facilitation, selection of readings and design of engaging learning activities, and fair assessment.
Think about the amazing professors you've had - how were they present for you and your learning journey? Think about the not-so-good ones - where did they fall down? Were they out of balance, maybe too "social" and not enough "cognitive" presence? Or all teaching and no social presence, so the class seemed flat and boring? Using this framework helped me stay attentive to the balance.
Janet - thank you so much for your wonderful comment and the link and thoughts yiu shared as well! You are so right to discuss human presence. No AI tool can ever replace the human factor! Thank you very much ✨⭐️
Wow!!! Once again wow, Vicky! Tips after wise tips and what a fantastic idea to combine the songs with the topic! I am so in love with this idea! Ingenious! Thank you for another Saturday!!!
Yay thank youuuuu!!!! I’m so happy you like it!