Lara Allen (HMS) and Amanda Matles (SSCS) show and tell about two socially engaged reading platforms, Perusall and Hypothes.is. They will discuss how instructors can integrate these tools to support peer instruction, reading assignment accountability, flipped classrooms, and active learning.
Distinguished professor Justice A. Whitaker will discuss his use of the ungrading pedagogical practice and how he uses this material to generate an authentic relationship with his students.
Chelsea Limbird’s 2024 CTL Faculty Fellowship project explores the role of the human body in the creative process and investigates approaches where observation, experience and analysis of the body’s physical and sensorial presences yield representation in a range of media, scales and formats.
Dana Reilly’s 2024 CTL Faculty Fellows project is an effort to research and implement ways to integrate accessibility goals in the classrooms of the Film/Video department. Specifically focusing on the use of technology in the classroom, Dana’s project will help the Film/Video department and beyond deliver on Pratt’s mission to emphasize diversity and inclusion and provide a safe, stimulating environment for students to grow and create.
MJ Sieira’s 2024 CTL Faculty fellowship project investigates methodologies for the use of video in the teaching of spatial concepts across multiple art and design disciplines.
Considering the new Institute approach to the first year, Alice’s project is considering the needs of faculty and students to build classroom communities as we implement the new Cohorts across the incoming first year Gen Ed classes. Alice will share some initial findings on the research/literature about Living-Learning Communities on college campuses, pedagogical strategies for fostering a sense of community within the classroom, and how we might reconsider skill building, with a special focus on her home department, HAD.
Shayla Lawz proposes in her 2024 CTL Faculty Fellowship research that all art does not have to engage with the social/political landscape of the world, yet all art has the power to. In this work, she focuses on understanding more about how students view their power to spark political and social conversations through their art. She takes on this research with the goal of creating new courses and supporting already existing courses across SLAS that allow students to engage their creative practices with a social lens.
Todd Ayoung’s 2024 CTL Faculty Fellowship project, FORGET EDUCATION, proposes to
Infuse diversity into major or core curriculum courses.
Craft Open Educational Resources to enrich cross-disciplinary or interdisciplinary learning among faculty, staff, and students.
Research how decoloniality, labor/class issues of pedagogy intersect and inform the above.
Sobers’ 2024 CTL Faculty Fellows project, Fostering Play in Art + Technology, is about investigating ways to encourage play and exploration within the context of technical learning in DDA’s Art + Technology and Interactive Arts programs in order to make learning potentially technically challenging platforms accessible and inclusive, thus lowering potential barriers to entry.
Distinguished professor Justice A. Whitaker will discuss his use of the ungrading pedagogical practice and how he uses this material to generate an authentic relationship with his students.
