Transform Your Classroom with Perusall (A workshop)
Date: Saturday, November 21, 2020, 11:00am to 12:00pm EST
Speaker: Eric Mazur, Harvard University
About the Workshop
Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. The coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving some tasks to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. Through Perusall, Eric Mazur will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense-making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. In addition, he will discuss how the platform promotes intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to improve student performance.
The workshop deviates from the standard talk format. In order to make best use of our time together on Nov 21, please take 20 minutes to complete a short pre-workshop assignment to get started in Perusall before we meet.
- To get started, make an account on Perusall and join the PoLS-T Network “course” using the course code MAZUR-8JESK. This video contains instructions on how to make an account on Perusall, but be sure to use the course code above, not the one given in the video. (If you already have an account, just log in to your account and enroll in the course.
- Once you have joined the course in Perusall, please complete the brief 2-part assignment for Nov 21.
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