In the revised and updated edition of Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (3rd Ed.), John Bean returns from retirement, persuaded by readers to renew this beloved book in collaboration with Dan Melzer. You’ll find the clear advice, practical strategies, and useful examples you appreciated in past editions along with the latest on writing transfer; metacognition, self-assessment, and peer review; translingual approaches to diversity in language practices; grading alternatives and ungrading; and social media and technology. In this session, we’ll discuss how to design activities that help students think critically; ways to help students read mindfully (themes that have echoed throughout our recent discussions); and how we can engage with these ideas in our own classrooms. Our discussion focuses on:

• “Designing Tasks to Promote Active Thinking and Learning” (Chapter 6, pp. 121-131), and
• “Helping Students Read Mindfully Across the Disciplines” (Chapter 7, pp. 133-158).
  

Participants may access the ebook online at any time through the AOK library in advance of the session using the following step-by-step instructions:

1. Log into myUMBC
2. Go to the AOK Library Website
3. In the AOK OneSearch box, type the book title (not the chapter titles) and press Search
4. Locate the ebook, and click on the link to Online Access under the descriptive information

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