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The 2024 Upper Peninsula Teaching and Learning Conference (UPTLC) will be hosted by Bay College in Escanaba, Michigan, May 13-14, 2024. This year’s theme is Embracing Change: Meeting the Needs of Modern Learners. This theme captures the ongoing challenges wrought by the pandemic, the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and increased awareness of the diverse academic and mental health needs of today’s learners. This conference will create a community of educators invested in honing human and technological skills for successful, sustainable teaching and learning. 

The conference includes pre-conference interactive workshops, optional social activities, and a full conference day of concurrent sessions, poster sessions, and “Birds of a Feather” gathering time. We’re excited to share four timely conference tracks:

  • Teaching techniques for online, hybrid, or virtual learning 

  • Teaching and learning in the age of AI 

  • Engaging modern learners 

  • Self-care for college students and/or college employees

The UPTLC is a regional conference focused on the practice and scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education and K-12 education. The UPTLC creates a space for educators to connect, learn, share, and continue growing skills for teaching and learning. We invite educators and educational staff/administration to submit presentation proposals and/ or attend this conference.

5/7 - Registration is now closed; we can’t wait to see you at UPTLC 2024!

**schedule subject to change**
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Tuesday, May 14 • 10:30am - 11:15am
Inquisitive Learners: Online Tools for Building a Curious Classroom

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Participants will begin with these activator questions: What is one thing that you're really good at, but you did not have the opportunity to demonstrate in school? How might your educational experience be elevated if given the chance to grow through this skill?

Participants will review the three foci of the Universal Design for Learning (CAST, 2022) and discuss how they are being addressed in the modern classroom.

Participants will be guided through the process of creating interactive instructional materials with built-in assessment tools in Nearpod and Peardeck. They will have the opportunity to explore an interactive Quality Performance Assessment (Guha et. al, 2022) and discuss the merits of creating and using QPAs.

They will be given a Google Sheet populated with online resources for curriculum development and instruction and have time to contribute to this sheet, which they may use as a resource.

The exit ticket will be as follows: What worked well for you today? What is one thing that you are looking forward to trying in your own classroom? What could be done to improve this workshop?

Sources:

About universal design for learning. CAST. (2022, February 8). https://www.cast.org/impact/universal-design-for-learning-udl

Guha, R., Wagner, T., Darling-Hammond, L., Taylor, T., & Curtis, D. (2022, May 3). The promise of performance assessments: Innovations in high school learning and higher education admissions. Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/promise-performance-assessments-report
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Megan Leys

Northern Michigan University

Tuesday May 14, 2024 10:30am - 11:15am EDT
JHUC 952C
  Interactive Session, Teaching techniques for online/hybrid/virtual learning

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