Reflective Teaching In A Digital Age
Welcome to the podcast series called: Reflective Teaching in a Digital Age. We are excited to share our conversations with professionals working in STEM education or related fields. They have graciously agreed to share their personal experiences of adapting to an online teaching mode as well as their professional wealth of practical and theoretical knowledge relevant to blended or online teaching. We discuss many topics including effective course design, teamwork facilitation, assessment, educational technology integration, social support, instructor’s trust development and many, many others. We hope these conversations will prove useful to our listeners as well as help to engage our community in a larger conversation about effective ways to navigate the “new normal” of blended and online learning in STEM to develop effective modes of teaching. Visit our website for more information: https://www.reflectiveteachinginadigitalage.com
Reflective Teaching In A Digital Age
SoundByte: How to Introduce AI in University Engineering Classes — Advice from Dr. Héctor Rodríguez‑Simmonds
In this segment, Hector shares practical and thoughtful strategies for introducing artificial intelligence in the engineering classroom. He describes how he uses practical, approachable projects—such as building simple classifiers or experimenting with basic machine learning models—to make AI concepts feel accessible. By connecting AI to foundational engineering and mathematical ideas—and encouraging play, experimentation, and systems thinking—Hector suggests an approach for educators and students to meaningfully engage with this transformative technology.
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