The Symposium for Teaching with Technology 2022: Event Schedule

The Symposium for Teaching with Technology 2022 will be held online on April 20-21, 2022, from 1:00-5:30 P.M. Below is the program schedule.

Wednesday Sessions

Wednesday, April 20 – 1:00 P.M. to 2:15 P.M.

Level Up Your Teaching: On Games + Learning

Welcome and Keynote

“Gamification” – introducing game elements into non-game settings, such as education – has begun to influence our lives in many ways. But what if educators were to introduce elements of game design beyond leaderboards, point systems, and badges into their pedagogy? This presentation will explore how game design thinking can transform the educational experience, incorporating case studies from the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and the Weston Game Lab at the University of Chicago.

Speakers

Wednesday, April 20 – 2:30 P.M. to 3:15 P.M.

Fireside Chat with Ashlyn Sparrow

Concurrent Session 1

This session will be an opportunity for attendees to chat informally with our keynote speaker, Ashlyn Sparrow. Come with any questions you may have about digital pedagogy.

Speakers
  • Ashlyn Sparrow, Assistant Director, Weston Game Lab, University of Chicago

OI Adult Education Program: Changing Technologies and New Challenges

Concurrent Session 2

The Oriental Institute (OI) adopted different pedagogical strategies over the course of the pandemic, initially adopting a flipped-classroom approach, then switching to live lectures on Zoom. In this session, Rebecca Wang, a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in the OI’s adult education program, and Tasha Vorderstrasse, head of the OI’s adult education program, will discuss their experiences with these two strategies, including the strengths and weaknesses of each. Their pedagogical outcomes are instructive for instructors interested in reaching students of all ages.

Speakers
  • Tasha Vorderstrasse, University and Continuing Education Program Coordinator, Oriental Institute
  • Rebecca Wang, Digital Pedagogy Fellow, ATS; Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Online Collaboration for Effective Writing Feedback

Concurrent Session 3

Online tools allow the SOSC Writing Program to tailor writing instruction to an individual student at any stage of the writing process, regardless of that student’s writing background. Head Writing Advisors Annemarie Catania and Maxine Frendel will discuss how, using online technologies, students can read, understand, and incorporate feedback in real time, working alongside a writing advisor to make revisions or apply the feedback to future assignments.  Feedback from workshops, office hour meetings, and writing portfolios becomes part of an ongoing conversation for improvement over the course of the year.

Speakers
  • Annemarie Catania, Head Writing Advisor, Administration & Instructor Outreach, SOSC Writing Program
  • Maxine Frendel, Head Writing Advisor, Writing Pedagogy & Curricular Development,SOSC Writing Program

Wednesday, April 20 – 3:30 P.M. to 4:15 P.M.

Streamline Your Grading with Gradescope

Concurrent Session 1

Gradescope is a powerful software tool for grading handwritten work and creating online assignments. In this session, Alison Hunter, Senior Lecturer in BSCD, will explain how Gradescope can help you to make your grading more efficient, “flip” your classroom, and more.

Speakers
  • Alison Hunter, Senior Lecturer, Biological Sciences Collegiate Division

Playing Together: Online Platforms, Collaborative Learning, and Videogame Studies

Concurrent Session 2

As an object of study, videogames carry with them unique pedagogical challenges, which were exacerbated by the switch to distance learning during the pandemic. In this session, Chris Carloy will discuss how he used a combination of technologies — streaming, real-time chats on Twitch and Discord, game-capture software, and Canvas — to teach videogame studies to his students. He will explore the influence these various technologies had on how his students engaged with the course materials and with one another.

Speakers
  • Chris Carloy, Assistant Instructional Professor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities and Cinema and Media Studies

Thursday Sessions

Thursday, April 21 – 1:00 P.M. to 2:15 P.M.

Low-Lift, High-Impact” Kickstarting the Journey Towards Digital Fluency

Welcome and Keynote

How and where do we start in our efforts to keep digital pedagogies rigorous but adaptable, mindful of student needs and learning outcomes, and without anxiety or extreme labor demands? This presentation offers educators (at any stage of their career) practical strategies and discipline-agnostic principles to begin the exciting, recursive, and collaborative process toward digital fluency. More specifically, the speaker will offer a framework for how the use of “low-lift” technologies can yield “high impacts” in student learning and engagement.

Speakers
  • Lynn Barnett, Interim Executive Director, Academic Technology Solutions, University of Chicago
  • Shauna Chung, Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson University

Thursday, April 21 – 2:30 P.M. to 3:15 P.M.

Fireside Chat with Shauna Chung

Concurrent Session 1

This session will be an opportunity for attendees to chat informally with our keynote speaker, Shauna Chung. Come with any questions you may have about digital pedagogy.

Speakers
  • Shauna Chung, Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson University

Reframing Discourse with Technological Tools

Concurrent Session 2 

When well-used, instructional technologies offer opportunities to recenter discourse on understanding, multiple perspectives, and collaborating on complex problems. In this session, Leila Brammer, Director of the Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse, will explain how she utilizes principles of discourse theory to frame exercises, assignments, and technologies, in order to build students’ capacity to seek multiple perspectives and engage difference and disagreement.

Speakers
  • Leila Brammer, Director, Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse

The Pedagogy of Posting: Course Blogs as a Teaching Tool

Concurrent Session 3

Course blogs have many pedagogical uses, from discussion boards to digital exhibition spaces. In this session, Ana Lima (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Leslie Rogers (Astronomy and Astrophysics) will discuss how course blogs have enhanced their teaching practice in their respective disciplines.

Speakers
  • Ana Maria Lima, Director of the Portuguese Language Program; Chair of RLL Language Directors’ Committee; Senior Instructional Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Leslie Rogers, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Thursday, April 21 – 3:30 P.M. to 4:15 P.M.

Virtual Reality Technology in the Language Classroom

Concurrent Session 1

Virtual reality (VR) technology provides an opportunity for faculty and instructors to expand the bounds of the traditional classroom. In this talk, Claudia Quevedo-Webb and Juliano Saccomani (Romance Languages and Literatures) will explore pedagogical methods for using VR to immerse language students in new linguistic and cultural contexts. Please note: this virtual session will focus on the process and pedagogy of using VR in the classroom; the presenters will share ways for attendees to experience the VR technology after Symposium.

Speakers
  • Claudia Quevedo-Webb, Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish
  • Juliano Saccomani, Assistant Instructional Professor in Portuguese and Spanish

Teaching the Arts in a Remote/Blended Modality

Concurrent Session 2 

How can instructors of the arts support studio-based practice in virtual space? How can digital creative writing workshops offer a community of trust, challenge, and mutual support? What new and improvisatory forms of performance, presentation, and curation can we find in digital and hybrid venues? This panel discussion brings together faculty instructor-practitioners from across the arts (Theater and Performance; Creative Writing; Visual Arts) to reflect on the challenges and unexpected affordances of teaching the arts in remote and blended instructional modalities.

Speakers
  • Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, Assistant Professor of Practice in Theater and Performance Studies
  • Meghan Lamb, Lecturer in Creative Writing
  • Gabrielle Sanson, VIsual Arts Teaching Fellow, Department of Visual Arts