One Nation Divided: Quieting the Echo Chamber!

Submission Deadline: Oct. 15

This year’s Teaching and Learning Panel will focus on teaching in an age of political divisiveness and acrimony through the principals of democracy. Close attention can be focused on encouraging and promoting one’s political opinion but tempering it with some degree of understanding for other viewpoints. Not only are our social networks turning into echo chambers, but partisan animosity is also higher than it has been in decades. How do faculty teach undergraduate students to be independent thinkers while balancing their opinions with relevant information that encourages inclusiveness and community?

To be accepted for the teaching and learning session, we ask that you submit a proposal, with title, that works the theme into your presentation. This year, we really want to have substantive sessions on the theme in question. We ask that you prepare an overview of the teaching activity, with some supporting literature, to be shared with the group, and potentially posted on-line. We have a peer-edited teaching and learning consortium/newsletter/outlet which is on the website. If you wish for your presentation to be reviewed for this, following the conference, forward a short essay focusing on the project you presented to acraig4@gsu.edu.

Submissions should include an overview of the teaching method, and a short, supporting literature review. These should be less than ten pages in length and will be due Dec. 31, 2019. Please note, you do not need this for participating in the panel, and not all need to submit; only those wanting to share their work in our online teaching and learning consortium, where we can all see, replicate, adjust, and use each other’s teaching pedagogies!

Additionally, the teaching and learning committee is proud to announce it is keeping with the tradition of the GATE and GASOTL teaching awards! The GATE Award is given for innovation in teaching based on a presentation at this teaching and learning session. The recipient of the GASOTL Award is selected by the committee and based on application criteria. More information on awards is below.

Please send teaching and learning session proposal ideas to this year’s Program Chair and Teaching and Learning Coordinator: Ann Robinson, at acraig4@gsu.edu.

Please include Teaching and Learning Panel in the subject line. Please e-mail your conference proposal by Oct. 15, 2019 to acraig4@gsu.edu