This guide presents 10 hands-on “challenges” to help UVA students, faculty, and researchers explore generative AI in academic and creative contexts. Each self-contained activity promotes active learning, critical thinking, and reflection, and can be completed in any order based on your interests.
The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Collective is an online hub that brings together resources, professional development and support for those who teach with primary sources, including librarians, archivists, teachers, cultural heritage professionals, and anyone who has an interest in using primary sources in an educational setting.
Over 60 practical assignment prompts and ideas across disciplines to assist with teaching skills for using ChatGPT (and other AI tools), including prompt engineering, evaluating output, analyzing texts, writing, generating content, studying, and career planning.
A collection of openly licensed, peer-reviewed strategies that utilize generative AI tools to support learning in higher education
Informationliteracy.gov disseminates successful practices, tools, and programs related to financial, health, digital, and other information literacy subject areas. Focusing on resources and programs delivered locally, Informationliteracy.gov supports library and museum practitioners and community-based organizations across the country in their efforts to meet community needs and provide resources and trainings on these subjects.
Home for the IMLS Grant RE-72-17-0103-17 - “RE:Search” - Unpacking the Algorithms That Shape Our UX. Deliverables include a teaching curriculum, syllabi for a week-long workshop and semester-length course, an action handbook for teaching algorithmic awareness concepts, and a software prototype that demonstrates algorithms in action. Page maintained by Jason Clark.
K-12 digital media resource from Canada featuring classroom lesson plans, with work sheets, backgrounders, tip sheets and essays, and multimedia games and quizzes.
The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature.
Ideas for embedding library instruction into courses. Includes a section for online learning.
Collects ideas for interactive information literacy lessons.
Practical, ready-to-use activities from Professor of Communication Constance Staley.
Combines theory with specific lesson plans and assessment options related to ACRL's threshold concepts.
Lesson plans & lesson plan reviews, exercises, standards by state, reviews of primary source/history sites.
The resources included represent 12 data-driven assignments created by USC faculty recipients of the Provost's Data-Driven Assignment Grant Program in Spring 2015. The faculty grant recipients worked with instructional designers in the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching to design these assignments in accordance with advancing USC's strategic focus on data literacy for students including abilities to think critically about data, ask meaningful questions, make evidence-based observations, and communicate findings.
Science NetLinks is a dynamic Website connecting K-12 teachers, students, and families to STEM resources produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science including lesson plans, interactives, and reviewed Internet resources. The lesson plan and tool databases are searchable by grade level, themes, and content area.
Gooru is a free, educational search engine for online resources and lesson plans in science, math, social studies and language arts. Teachers and students can search for and curate collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos, handouts, games, and quizzes.
OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners. Searchable by keyword, subject, and material type, including activity, assessment, lesson, and teaching/learning strategy.
Toolbox of activities, discussion starters, and partner/group work exercises from the University of South Florida's Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence.
