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Giso Iravani-Manesh

She/her/elle

Assistive Technology Counsellor
Dawson College

Sessions in which Giso Iravani-Manesh attends

Monday 12 June, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:00 AM
8:00 AM EDT - 9:00 AM EDT | 1 hour
9:00 AM
9:00 AM EDT - 10:15 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes

Students Living with Chronic Pain: Visualizing Invisible Barriers to Learning Using Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality Valerie Bourassa and Hannah DerueIn this Demonstration/Performance Showcase, we wish to invite participants to visit the virtual reality creations inspired by the experience of chronic pain, designed by students and faculty at McGill University. We will be using a virtual reality Oculus set and the program Tilt Brush to illustra...

10:15 AM
10:15 AM EDT - 10:45 AM EDT | 30 minutes
10:45 AM
10:45 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes

OPIEVA's Chatbot: for a portrait of interactivity in assessmentMarie-Claude Petit, Julie Rose, Séverine Locret, Diane Leduc and Chantal TremblayThe Interuniversity Observatory of Innovative Practices in Learning Assessment (OPIÉVA [Observatoire interuniversitaire sur les pratiques innovantes d’évaluation des apprentissages]) is organizing a symposium to present the design, development, testing and implementation of its first automated conversation tool or cha...

12:00 PM
12:00 PM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes
1:30 PM
1:30 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT | 15 minutes
1:45 PM
1:45 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes

Link to join the live stream: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/86300688484 “Educators collaborating to innovate: The roles digital technologies can play”As blended learning is now ...

3:00 PM
3:00 PM EDT - 3:15 PM EDT | 15 minutes
3:15 PM
3:15 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes

Teaching Inclusive Teaching Strategies: A Game-Based ApproachMichael Reese and Reid SczerbaThis session will present an approach for teaching research-based, inclusive-pedagogical strategies in any modality. This approach is based on a card deck inspired by game design. The presenter will describe the approach and then model the workshop for participants so they can incorporate the approach in their academic departments and faculty development programs. The p...

4:30 PM
4:30 PM EDT - 4:45 PM EDT | 15 minutes

Tuesday 13 June, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:00 AM
8:00 AM EDT - 9:00 AM EDT | 1 hour
9:00 AM
9:00 AM EDT - 10:15 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes

A hands-on educational kit showcasing ethical and responsible use of AI to solve a societal issueMeghrig Terzian, Mauricio Buschinelli, Ann-Louise Davidson, Kristen Irvine and Tarik BikhandafneThis activity is a practical demonstration for teachers in STEM of how ethical and responsible AI can be used in the classroom to tackle a societal issue. Participants will use a Raspberry PI and sensors to read data and make AI decisions. The activity is one of three p...

10:15 AM
10:15 AM EDT - 10:45 AM EDT | 30 minutes
10:45 AM
10:45 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes

Link to join the live stream: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/86349273320 “Overcoming Challenges in Active Learning Environments”Despite active learning being recognized as a superior method of instruction in the classroom, most c...

1:30 PM
1:30 PM EDT - 2:45 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes

3 PresentationsProfiter pleinement du potentiel des téléphones intelligents dans sa pratique pédagonumériqueRyan W. Moon and Kim BurtonInfluential Trends: Information for Faculty Concerning Technologies for Students with Disabilities Catherine Fichten, Alice Havel, Christine Vo and Guissou Iravani-ManeshAccessible from the Outset: Embedding Universal Design for Learning Pr...

2:45 PM
2:45 PM EDT - 3:15 PM EDT | 30 minutes
3:15 PM
3:15 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes

Augmenting place: Centering student work in the creation of AR Cité, an augmented reality appNancy Rebelo and Reisa LevineImagine if our city could speak… what secrets would be revealed?Over the past two years, students and faculty from a range of disciplines have been building AR Cité, an augmented reality app that brings to life stories from in and around Dawson College. Members of the production team will discuss the challenges and opportunities in ...

3:15 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes

Facilitating Engagement, Empathy and Critical thinking through the use of videogames in a College ClassroomJohnathan Mina and Pascale WarmoesThis project, which received the 2021 PREP research grant, investigates the use of entertainment-based videogames as an educational tool in CEGEP courses. Our research measures whether the videogames we choose had a measurable impact on our student’s critical thinking skills and empathy levels in both a Humanities and th...