SS Teaching Strategies: Innovative Methods & Techniques

SS Teaching Strategies

Why AI Is Changing What It Means to Be Intelligent

Across higher education, artificial intelligence has rapidly changed how students complete academic work. Essays, summaries, explanations, and structured problem-solving can now be generated instantly. The first concern has understandably been academic in

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What’s the Story Your Syllabus Tells?: Setting the Stage for Learning

Once upon a time, there was this brave professor, who opened a word processor app to develop one of their most important tools in life; the syllabus.   When we design courses, we are focused on sharing knowledge that will be both informatio

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The Pedagogy of Trading Places: Lessons from an Unexpected Role Reversal with AI

True Confessions from the Grading Trenches It happened on a Wednesday—the kind of Wednesday that arrives in the middle of a grading cycle and quietly steals your personality. I had been working through a stack of papers that all needed thoughtful, in

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Each Student Has a Different Door: What I Learned About Learning Styles from Andrew Cohen — and from My Own Students

After attending a summer workshop on learning strategies led by Professor Andrew Cohen, I returned to my Spanish classrooms at Northwestern University with a simple question: What would happen if my students became aware of how they learned?  To

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