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Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings

1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us as we explore the latest high quality STEM Education Research studies and how to implement effective and inclusive teaching. We welcome guest speakers from UCLA and other academic institutions to share their research and lead small group discussions with our teaching and learning community. Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and anyone interested in STEM [...]

“When disabilities make school harder, you don’t get to do all the extras:” Participation in high-impact extracurriculars for students with disabilities

Zoom

“When disabilities make school harder, you don’t get to do all the extras:” Participation in high-impact extracurriculars for students with disabilities  Talk Description: High-impact practices are educational experiences, such as undergraduate research experiences, that can support undergraduate student retention. This talk will share findings from a recent national survey, exploring how the extracurricular nature of [...]

“A Justice Partnership for Course Innovation” featuring Siobhan Braybrook and the Life Sciences Liberation Team | Ed Talks & Happy Hour

UCLA

In this project, we are working to imagine and create a more liberated introductory life science classroom. We chose to take a radical path to inclusive course design by engaging in an authentic and meaningful approach we call a Justice Partnership; our team, Life Sciences Liberation (‘LS Lib’), centers and empowers Black womxn-identifying students. Our [...]

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee | Book Club, Chapters 1 – 3

Terasaki Life Sciences 5100

Heather McGhee Book Talk & CEILS Book Club Dear Colleagues, I’d like to invite you to join me in welcoming Heather McGhee to our beautiful campus for a thought-provoking evening, including a discussion of her book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. This New York Times Bestseller, longlisted for the National [...]

Freedom to Learn: Banned Book Reading for the National Day of Action

Boyer 159

On Wednesday, May 3rd, join CEILS for Freedom to Learn: Banned Book Reading for the National Day of Action from 3 - 4:30pm in Boyer 159. We will be reading excerpts from Stamped (For Kids) by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi and This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges and discussing the impact of [...]

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee | Book Club, Chapters 4 & 5

Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

Dear Colleagues, I’d like to invite you to join me in welcoming Heather McGhee to our beautiful campus for a thought-provoking evening, including a discussion of her book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. This New York Times Bestseller, longlisted for the National Book Award has been called “One of today’s [...]

AI in Action: Flash Talks on AI Use in the Classroom

Online

Session Information Date: Friday, May 12 Time: 2pm - 3:30pm PT Location: Zoom   🌟 Register here for Zoom link 🌟   Session Description Join us for a series of 5-minute flash talks by faculty and graduate & undergrad students discussing the potential uses of generative AI in teaching and learning. This event aims to explore [...]

ChatGPT for Programming: Exploring AI as a Potential Equity-Lever for Learning to Code?

Online

Session Information Date: Monday, May 15 Time: 12pm - 1:30pm PT Location: Zoom (Register for Zoom link) Session Description How can we leverage AI to support authentic learning while also mitigating potential harm to learning?  This is a national conversation happening across higher education, and the applications vary across disciplines. When it comes to programming, [...]

Course Design Opportunities with AI

Online

Course Design Opportunities with AI Join us to explore some of the ways to leverage AI to find resources, design assignments, give students feedback and improve student writing. This event is one of many events hosted during the month of May on "AI in Action: Exploring AI's Potential in Teaching and Learning". Monday, May 16th, [...]

A Conversation with AI: Hands-on Demonstration of ChatGPT and Other AI Tools

Online

Session Information Date: Wednesday, May 17 Time: 12pm - 1pm PT Location: Zoom (Register for Zoom link) Session Description Many of us have come across AI assisted technology from time to time, like spelling and grammar checks and the suggested words on your smartphone while texting. And some may have used the suggestions from the [...]