LTC24-Program

Opening & Keynote by Dr. Bonnie Stewart

Generative Ethics - Confronting What AI Means for Higher Education

Time: 9:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Location: TBD

A1. Cultivating Inclusive Learning Environments

• Let’s Walk the Talk: Centering Black Urbanism in the Redevelopment of the Planning Studio Curriculum
  
• Women in Physics: Empowering Students to Address Gender Bias
  
• Implications of Internationalization of Higher Education for Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)

Location: TBD

A2. Empowering Student Voice and Agency

• The Pedagogy of Generosity & Skepticism
  
• Towards teaching and learning grief justice: Making meaning ‘when grief comes to class’
• Empowering Student Voice and Agency through ZON100 and DG8116

Location: TBD

A3. Expanding Learning Beyond the Classroom

• Singing It is Hearing It: Experiential Learning in the Teaching of Fundamental Musical Skills to Non-Music Majors
  
• Taking Stock: TMU’s EL Inventory Project
  
• Beyond the Walls: A Proposal for Expanding Learning Horizons Beyond the Classroom 

Location: TBD

A4. Teaching with Technology and Navigating the New Normal

• ProfGPT: A GenAI Tool for Student Engagement Beyond the Classroom
  
• Experiential Learning: Simulations from Live-Actor to Asynchronous Online
  
• Integrating Emerging Technology to Enhance the Live Sport Experience

Location: TBD

Join us to learn about the launch of a new Black-Focused Pedagogy Fund that will provide Grants to Black Scholars in order to support curriculum development that infuses Afrocentric knowledge into programs and courses, incorporating Black histories, arts, culture, literature, and research that reflects the richness and diversity of Black scholarship at TMU.

Location: TBD

Sean Kheraj, Vice-Provost Academic (TMU) will host and moderate a conversation with other vice provosts from York University, University of Toronto, and McMaster University to explore how each campus has managed a range of issues including teaching development, academic integrity, assessment design, ethics, and more.

Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: TBD

B1. Cultivating Inclusive Learning Environments

• Inclusive Futures: How ChatGPT Challenges and Changes Disability Discourse in Education
  
• Designing Inclusive Pedagogy: Digital Approaches for Global Epistemologies
  
• Transforming student voice through a digital scientific communication assignment

Location: TBD

B2. Empowering Student Voice and Agency

• Using project-based learning to facilitate authentic research skills
  
• Rise and Shine?: 8AM Classes, Inquiry-Based Learning, and Class-wide Projects in a Report Writing Course
  
• Exploring Peer Mentorship in Media Production Education: Reflections on a Brief Pedagogical Intervention
  

Location: TBD

B3. Expanding Learning Beyond the Classroom

• Interprofessional Education Through Self-Constructed Poetry
  
• Across the Universe-City: How the co-creation of a short-film engaged a campus community
  
• Creating Space: Building Community, Inclusivity and Dialogue within the Classroom

Location: TBD

B4. Teaching with Technology and Navigating the New Normal

• Bringing archives to life through immersive media experiences
  
• Dynamic Digital Learning Approaches: Maximizing Educational Impact
  
• A drawing is worth a thousand lines of code

Location: TBD

The Learning and Teaching Grants Program (LTG), funded by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, reflects the University’s continuing commitment to teaching excellence and pedagogical leadership, along with our community’s ongoing dedication to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA) in the classroom.

Time: 2:10 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Location: TBD

C1. Cultivating Inclusive Learning Environments

• The Anatomy of a Discussion Question
• Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom
  
• Patient-Partners in Health Professions Education: Recommendations for Success

Location: TBD

C2. Empowering Student Voice and Agency

• “Ungrading” in a large class: Why, How, and What to Consider
  
• Collaborative Reflections on Specs Grading in Communication Courses
• Cognitive control applied to a real-life experience

Location: TBD

C3. Title Teaching with Technology and Navigating the New Normal

• Live Actor Simulation: Low-Tech Solutions for a High-Tech World
  
• Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)
  
• Omni, the future is collaborative: an introduction to TMU Libraries new Academic Search Tool

Location: TBD

This session explores the intersection of Indigenous Science and experiential learning through immersion in a hide tanning. Participants will have the opportunity to assist with tanning activities while gaining insight into its cultural significance and practical applications. In an accompanying talk, we will discuss the integration of Indigenous Knowledges into our teaching practices, highlighting the resilience and innovation inherent in Indigenous Knowledge systems. We will also explore how Indigenous pedagogies challenge conventional educational paradigms and provide a framework for re-centering Indigenous education.

Time: 3:20 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.

Location: Northeast corner TMU Quad

This interactive session will be facilitated by the Generative AI Teaching Partners program subgroup from the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. 

Time: 3:20 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.

Location: TBD