Three Keys of SoTL

A response to the Three Keys of SoTL Activity
created March 15, 2021 by Katrina Keefer (@Katrina.Keefer)

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Identify Three Characteristics of SoTLK that resonate with your professional experience and practice:

 

1. Africa is often underexplored in teaching prior to post-secondary levels, making students’ awareness of the continent and its people almost abstract. How can I bring Africa to life, celebrate its people, and share the hunger to learn more and dig deeper in my students?
2. What methods can I use to excite learners and turn the abstract into the real? What has worked in the past and what will continue to be applicable?
3. How can I ethically gather data to continually refine this experience, and in turn publish results in a way that encourages my colleagues to step away from traditional forms of teaching?

 

Motivations:

 

1. New digital innovations that are exciting to colleagues and learners alike, and new ways to use technology to disseminate learning.
2. Continue to bring greater awareness of Africa and the African diaspora to students who previously were unaware of it or had misinformed ideas which have perpetuated harmful ideologies or stereotypes.
3. Uniting strategies for Teaching and Learning with my research to enhance engagement.

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