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| ID | 494 |
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| First Name | Matthew |
| Last Name | Graham |
| Institution | Northeastern Illinois University |
| Speaker Category | faculty |
| Title of Talk | Promoting Out-of-Class Engagement Using Piazza |
| Abstract | This talk is aimed at sharing many lessons learned regarding how to promote quality out-of-class engagement. We discuss implementation of Piazza and online quizzes in a flipped "Introduction to Proofs" course taught over six terms across two Universities. We view this course as a communications course. Our students need to learn how to communicate Mathematics informally and formally both verbally and in written form. We have found the flipped structure allows for ample time for our students to learn how to communicate Mathematics informally as they discuss the various problems with classmates. We have also found that increasing the informal communication skills of our students usually doesn't correspond to an increase in their formal writing. We use Piazza as a way of providing massive amounts of formative assessment aimed at perfecting their formal writing skills and we use online quizzes both as reading quizzes and as flash cards to help students memorize and understand the definitions in the course. |
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| Suitable for undergraduates? | ? |
| Day Preference | none |
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| Bringing a laptop? | |
| Overhead Needed? | Y |
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| Date Submitted | 10/13/2017 |
| Year | 2017 |