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Twenty-One Days of First Grade Spanish Dual Language Immersion: A Nurturing Mathematics and Linguistics Incubation
Full text linkAnalogous to a 21-day incubation period of a chick, four mathematics and linguistics practices are employed as a framework in a first grade Dual Language Immersion classroom. These practices include: 1) Concrete-Representational-Abstract instructional sequences, 2) Receptive and Productive Language Modalities, 3) Gradual Release of Responsibility, and 4) Number Representations and Subitizing. The article illustrates how the framework can be implemented by offering details about mathematics and management routines and examples of formal mathematics instruction
Evaluating open access publishing opportunities: Recognizing and avoiding predatory journals
Full text linkTrack: Open Educational Resources, Open Pedagogy & Open Access Scholarship
Open access publishing provides many benefits, including increased readership and higher citation rates. But when evaluating and selecting open publication venues, authors must be aware of practices and characteristics that are associated with predatory publishing. These publications use deceptive practices and prioritize self-interest and financial gain over scholarship quality, often charging authors to publish their work without providing peer review, editing, and other services associated with legitimate scholarly publishing. New scholars - especially graduate students - need to be educated to recognize and avoid these journals, but even experienced authors can be caught unaware, as predatory practices evolve and change over time.
This session will discuss predatory and deceptive academic publishing practices–including new and developing concerns in this area–offer methods and resources to help evaluate journal quality, show examples of red flags related to journal practices, and offer tools and tips to help authors avoid entanglement with predatory journals
Diffusing AI in Educator Preparation Programs
Full text linkTrack: Innovative Technologies and Learning Spaces
Using the Diffusions of Innovations framework by Rogers (2003), this poster session will explore the ways in which Generative AI is an innovation which is still early in the innovation process. From the framework, the presenters will share how current schools of Education need to prepare students for a future classroom that will involve AI. While presenters will provide specific tools and strategies that higher education professionals can use to begin this process with education students, these guidelines and strategies could apply to other higher education professional\u27s looking for guidance on how to prepare today’s students for a future that involves AI.
Build It Right: Incorporating Accessibility into Student-Produced Online Artifacts
No full textTrack: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) & Accessibility
Attention to accessibility generally focuses on course navigation and instructor- or publisher-produced materials, which implies assumptions about both the instructor and learners in the course. Even when online and blended courses are designed with accessibility in mind, they frequently include responses to peer-generated materials that are not accessible to some learners and perhaps not to the instructor. This presentation suggests solutions and elicits further discussion of how to meet the differing needs among both faculty and learners.
As higher education still revolves around the face-to-face lecture as the ideal (i.e. the sage on the stage), accessibility is often an afterthought, particularly in online courses. Even when the course design is accessible, student-produced artifacts are generally not reviewed for accessibility despite the increased frequency of peer -to -peer sharing and required responses, This presentation will demystify the process of creating accessible learning materials by both instructors and learners, ensuring that people of all abilities can access and utilize learning materials. This presentation will share ways to build accessibility into student-produced materials, therefore providing both a key career skill and ensuring access by all
Situating Literacy-Rich Engagements for Young Emergent Bilinguals
No full textCamp Sunshine, a summer literacy program for emergent bilingual children ages 4-8, positions bilingualism as an asset. In Camp Sunshine, we strive to create inclusive multilingual spaces that honor children\u27s cultural identities and lived experiences while supporting literacy development. The camp implements a three-pronged approach to literacy engagement: beginning with whole-group interactive read-alouds of carefully selected multicultural picturebooks, followed by small-group re-engagement with key concepts, and culminating in hands-on explorations through art or play-based activities. Through Camp Sunshine, children freely use their full linguistic repertoires, navigating literacy as they engage in translanguaging. This descriptive article presents key insights including strategies to support literacy development like using culturally relevant literature as windows into children\u27s experiences, incorporating sensory-rich experiences, and fostering collaborative relationships between educators. The framework which offers practical applications for educators seeking to create culturally responsive learning environments for emergent bilingual learners
Practice Makes Progress in Mathematics: A Research to Practice Summary
Full text linkThis research-to-practice article supplements theresearch article Practice Makes Progress: LeveragingPractice-Based Teacher Education in MathematicsPedagogy Courses for Primary GradeLearners published in the journal The Dialog. Thisarticle presents suggestions based on a researchstudy that provided a research-based framework,Inclusive and Equity-based Mathematics Teaching(IEBMT), and examined how future teachers (referredto as teacher candidates) effectively plannedfor and taught mathematics activities in kindergartenclassrooms. This work is relevant to earlychildhood education professionals since researchsupports benefits in using inclusive and equity-based practices when teaching mathematics
Empowering Families for STEM Success: How Parental Involvement Shapes Early Childhood Education
Full text linkAs STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education becomes a cornerstone of modern curricula, early childhood educators play a critical role in laying its foundation. However, the classroom is only part of the equation. Research shows that families particularly parents with STEM-related knowledge, experiences, and values can profoundly influence children’s early interest and success in STEM fields. This article highlights recent findings on STEM-specific parental social capital, summarizes key insights, and offers practical strategies for educators to engage families in meaningful STEM experiences
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No full textPoetry Corner
Full text linkUTEP\u27s Lawrence Lesser turned to poetry to help navigate these pandemic times, a reflection on infection and inflection! First published in the June 2020 issue of Radical Statistics, this poem could actually be used with high school students learning about the inflection point of a (logistic or other) graph, and then going on to make corona-connections with the meaning of the word inflection in the registers of linguistics and communication
Finding the Truth in Fiction
Full text linkGitanjali Kolanad goes against the hackneyed binary convention of ethics and legality to present an alternative imaginative take on the issue of the Indian heritage dancer.