Centre for Teaching Excellence
2024 Teaching and Learning SymposiumSymposium 2024
Social Gathering
Join us April 26 (Friday),
4:00-5:00pm,
for a special social event to conclude the symposium. Featuring food, live music, and other entertainment!
Children are welcome!
Keynote & Guest Speakers
Day 1: KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 9:30 am PST (Online)
Dr. Maha Bali
Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo.
ECOSYSTEMS THAT NURTURE SOCIALLY JUST CARE IN LEARNING SPACES IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI
Day 2: KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 9:30 am (In-person)
Dr. Johanna Sam
Tŝilhqot’in Nation, Assistant Professor in the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Education
INCLUSIVE SPACES: FOSTERING BELONGING AND DIVERSITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Day 3: GUEST SPEAKER
Friday, April 26, 2024, 3:00 pm (In-person)
Lucas Wright, M.Ed.
Senior Education Consultant, UBC
NURTURING LEARNING AND ENHANCING TEACHING WITH GENERATIVE AI: PROMPT WRITING AND GENAI-ENHANCED ASSIGNMENTS FOR CREATIVITY & CRITICAL THINKING
CAPILANO UNIVERSITY TEACHING & LEARNING SYMPOSIUM 2024
Nurturing Learning: What Is, What Was, and What Could Be
Online: April 24, 2024
In person: April 25 & 26, 2024
Our theme this year invites the CapU community to collectively learn from the wisdom of the past and contemplate the present to guide us into the future and llluminating 2030’s three core themes of community, imagination, and distinct university experience. Let’s come together and celebrate, share, and learn respectfully from Elders, keynote speakers, and each other as we consider ways to nurture learning for current and future students at CapU.
We are excited to announce our two keynote speakers, Dr. Maha Bali (April 24, online) and Dr. Johanna Sam (Apr. 25, in-person). You will experience their distinct but varied approaches to centering care, equity, social justice and belonging for widely diverse student populations like ours. We are confident you will be inspired with practical take-aways on how to nurture learning for our diverse learners at CapU in the age of Generative AI.
In addition, we’ve got an amazing line-up of more than 50 colleagues, sharing valuable teaching and learning insights in workshops, world cafes, panels and seeding sessions. Check back on this site for the forthcoming schedule.
Our final workshop on Friday afternoon will be facilitated by Guest Speaker, Lucas Wright, Senior Educational Consultant from UBC, who will lead and challenge us through prompt writing and GenAI-Enhanced Assignments for creativity and critical thinking.
Schedule
Questions? Contact us at cte@capilanou.ca
The symposium offers multiple opportunities for inspiration, teaching strategies to implement in your next class and for individual reflection and collective connection. Together, we will be exploring questions such as:
- How may we use generative AI ethically and responsively in teaching while continuing to nurture learning relationships?
- What does a commitment to diversity and accessibility ask of us as we consider current and future students at CapU?
- What does it mean to be a guest on this land, and how may this knowledge nurture learning and guide us in our continuous teaching and learning journeys?
- How do current and future pedagogical practices nurture our community and facilitate learning while being attentive to people and place?
“We collaborate to address the pressing issues of our time and to imagine new futures through established and emerging bodies of knowledge.” (Illuminating 2030)
Capilano University is named after Chief Joe Capilano, an important leader of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) Nation of the Coast Salish people. We respectfully acknowledge that our campuses are located on the unceded sovereign Indigenous Nations of Lil’wat, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm(Musqueam), Shíshálh (Sechelt), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh(Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh).
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