3 PresentationsWindows, mirrors and sliding glass doors: Leveraging community partnerships to provide authentic learning experiences in secondary education Emily Di Nunzio and Isabella LiuSupporting collaborative learning about Nature of Science and science identity development in a high school Biology class in OntarioElena Boldyreva, Maria Niño-Soto and James D. SlottaAI ...

Designing Inquiry-Based Labs for Physics and Biology: Lessons learned from practitioner-researcher partnershipsRhys Adams, Karl Laroche, Elizabeth Charles, Kevin Lenton, Michael Dugdale, Sean Hughes, Caroline Cormier, Véronique Turcotte and Chao ZhangWe report on two Inquiry-Based Laboratory (IBL) based practitioner-researcher partnerships. Our IBL implementations have evolved over 2-3 semesters, resulting in (1) a four-module sequence that culminates in a de...

Promoting agency for pedagogical change through a science undergraduate education research course Maxime Denis, Iris Guo, Anita Parmar, Pepin Megane, Samuel Richer and Tamara WesternExecuting pedagogical change in a scholarly manner with all partners at the table is challenging. The McGill University course FSCI 396 – Research in Science Teaching and Learning pairs undergraduate students with faculty to delve into the pedagogical literature to design and...

Teaching to the Text Generation Generation Robert Stephens and Joel TrudeauWith all the media hype about how A.I. text generation systems such as ChatGPT are ushering in a new era of rampant student plagiarism and possibly the “end of homework”, many educators and wondering if they need to radically reshape their methods. In this symposium, members of the DawsonA.I. Community of Practice will demonstrate how text generation can be engaged proactively in ...

3 PresentationsLearning From Tool-Building: The Activity Theory Case For Agile Development of Education TechnologyJeremie ChoquetteCurious, Concerned, Confused? The need for AI Literacy for Educators Lesley Wilton, Rutwa Engineer, Stephen Ip, Clare Brett and Athena TassisAnimate to Teach and Gamify to Practice: Utilizing Authoring Tools to Create Unique E-Learning Experien...