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The CATE Summer Design Series targets timely topics to upskill your pedagogy just in time for considering updates to your fall course design. All sessions are virtual via Microsoft Teams from 10: 00 am to 12:00 pm. For more details and to RSVP, click here. The CATE team will send calendar updates with logistics based on your RSVP choices. 

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Tuesday, July 9 - Designing for AI and Human Collaboration with MS Copilot. 

Participants in this session will build prompt engineering skills to use Microsoft Copilot for an array of instructional design tasks, such as tightening syllabus language and creating effective rubrics in minutes.  

Microsoft Copilot (2024). DALL.E 2 (2024) [text to image generative AI]. copilot.microsoft.com

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Wednesday, July 10 - Designing for Authenticity with IRIS. 

Participants will use an IRIS (issue, relevance, interdisciplinary, sustained inquiry) approach to create authentic learning experiences that enrich student learning. Through engagement in modeled classroom protocols, participants will identify an authentic, 'real world' issue in the field of study that students can research and attempt to solve using the ‘tools of the trade.’ 

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Thursday, July 11- Designing Assessment as Learning for Student Growth.

Avoid assessment based on misleading rankings in Fall 2024! Participants will take away strategies for low-stakes feedback loops that encourage a culture of ‘failing forward,’ productive struggle paired with ‘ungrading’ approaches to support a growth mindset, and backward planning to chunk manageable feedback cycles with opportunities for students to improve.  

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Email CATE instructional designer Rachelle Furness with questions, to request a training, or to make an appointment! rachelle.furness@austin.utexas.edu 

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