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Spring 2020 Meeting #3: Blackboard Discussion Board for Close Reading

Does Reading Matter? FIG Meeting #3 Facilitator: Michelle Gabay, English ([email protected]) for the Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading (FITR) Does Reading Matter? FIG May 20, 2020 at 12:00 Blackboard Discussion Board for Close Reading Goals: Learn how to use and embed active learning and reading technology into your emergency online course and lessons. Think about […]

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Spring 2020 Meeting #2 Google Docs for Annotation and Close Reading

Does Reading Matter? FIG Meeting #2 Facilitator: Michelle Gabay, English ([email protected]) for the Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading (FITR) Does Reading Matter? FIG May 6, 2020 at 12:00 This week, we looked at Google Docs for close reading, synchronously and asynchronously, as an online annotating tool. Goals: Learn how to use and embed active learning […]

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Spring 2020 Meeting #1 Getting Students to Read Online

Does Reading Matter? FIG Meeting #1 Facilitator: Michelle Gabay, English ([email protected]) for the Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading (FITR) Does Reading Matter? FIG April 22, 2020 at 12:00 Goals: Learn how to use and embed active learning and reading technology into your emergency online course. Learn how to access and view evaluation features in Perusall […]

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Fall 2019 Meeting 3: Reading In and Across the Disciplines

Meeting 3: Reading In and Across the Disciplines Readings: Laura Davies “Getting to the Root of the Problem: Teaching Reading as a Process in the Sciences“ Chris M. Anson “Writing to Read, Revisited“ Further reading: Maria Bartolomeo-Maida, “The Use of Learning Journals to Foster Textbook Reading in the Community College Psychology Classroom“ Eds. Alice S. […]

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Fall 2019 Meeting 2: The Reading Brain

Meeting 2: The Reading Brain Readings: We’ll be reading chapter 1 and chapter 2 of Maryanne Wolf’s book Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Daniel Willingham’s article “How to Get Your Mind to Read.” Date: October 24 Time: 3:00-4:00 Location: V117 We grounded this meeting in chapters from Maryanne Wolf’s book Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of […]

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Fall 2019 Meeting 1: Reading and the KCC Context

Meeting 1: Reading and the KCC Context Join us for our first fall 2019 FIG session on teaching reading, focusing on what reading means at Kingsborough and how we see reading in our own courses. We will be reading Annie Del Principe and Rachel Ihara’s article “‘I Bought the Book and I Didn’t Need it’: […]

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