FLC Topics by Rebecca Watts Hull https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl Please post your ideas for our two open sessions! en-us 2021-09-02 21:10:32 UTC 2025-09-25 13:31:21 UTC hello@padlet.com How not to overwhelm students with the SDGs rwattshull2_1 https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1713710079 The SDGs and complex issues like climate change can feel overwhelming to students. How do we empower them and avoid overwhelming them?]]> 2021-09-02 21:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1713710079 Supporting students in inquiry-based learning rwattshull2_1 https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1713711908 Some students prefer lectures! How do we prepare students for active learning engagement with the SDGs? What kinds of scaffolding should we provide?]]> 2021-09-02 21:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1713711908 Localizing the SDGs rwattshull2_1 https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1715139405 The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) recently recorded a session on localizing the SDGs. How can we incorporate both local and global elements in our SDG teaching? How can localization help us incorporate service learning into our teaching?]]> 2021-09-03 12:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1715139405 UDL with SDGs https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1725948696 How do we involve those with cognitive challenges to also get valuable lessons from the SDGs how do we paint the picture of a learning goal to different students?]]> 2021-09-08 20:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1725948696 Preparing students to lead change for meeting SDGs? mjrealff https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1732871430 Many ChBE students will go to work for large corporations, including the oil majors such as Chevron, Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Conoco, Phillips66, etc. These are major contributors to producing fossil hydrocarbons. How do we equip students to see opportunities to lead change and embrace SDGs but also be sensitive to corporate cultures that may have strong resistance to it?]]> 2021-09-11 18:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1732871430 Intersecting ESD and ChBE mjrealff https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1732878703 "the cognitive, social and emotional and behavioral dimensions of learning" - hmm I want my students to do mass balances correctly. What are concrete aspects of these dimensions for college students? I want ChBE's to have courage when faced with a situation where they may feel they are being pressured to agree to something that may lead to an accident. I want them to look for opportunities to improve their local communities by finding ways to engage them when decisions are being made about expanding or contracting a facility.]]> 2021-09-11 19:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1732878703 SDG, ESD and DEI https://padlet.com/gatech/7vvxdpqzsagsxsfl/wish/1733820450 Recent studies have shown that racial diversity can improve educational outcomes such as complex thinking among students. Encountering others who have diverse backgrounds and perspectives can lead to interactions that promote learning and development.
How to bring DEI into classroom activities?
·        Identify individual or personal characteristics that a student brings to an educational setting (teaching / learning, design projects etc.). 
·        For example, accounting for social and cultural context is key to success in product design. Through SDG-focused socio-technical project-based learning, provide opportunities in the curriculum activities with humanitarian design projects that
(i) explore connections between socio-cultural resources and the practices of engineering design
(ii) facilitate diverse (race/ethnicity and gender) student design teams encouraging student collaboration and interactions with others who are of different economic, social or racial/ethnic backgrounds.
(iii)Students can work in authentic engineering experiences to provide solutions to problems affecting their communities.
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