Events

Examining Dominant Narratives in Academia: Privileging Community Knowledge to Begin to Build Transformative Practices The 2024 ThinqStudio Unconference will host Dr. Travis Heath as the event’s “un”keynote . He will guide a discussion and exploration of potentially harmful and limiting narratives in academia. Unconference participants will use community knowledge to...

Soumia Bardhan will facilitate a ThinqStudio Mixed Venue Community of Practice for Faculty & Students. Our educational institutions are microcosms of society, where being extroverted, active, and outgoing are considered the norm and are generally seen as marks of happiness, confidence, and leadership. However, for learners and instructors who are...

ThinqStudio Fellow Mira Woodson is exploring rubrics as tools to foster imagination, curiosity, and self-awareness. She comes at this project from the challenges of design education and will share questions and insights that are useful in all disciplines. Typical uses of rubrics help us aim for transparency in grading. But...

Inquiry-based learning, student choice, and real world application in the higher ed classroom As a teacher-educator, I believe we must teach in the powerful, meaningful, student-centered ways we want our own teachers to teach. In other words, we must not only “talk the talk,” but more importantly, “walk the walk.”...

OASIS! Opportunities Await for Support, Imagination, and Solace An OASIS is a pleasant or peaceful area in the midst of a difficult place or situation. Let ThinqStudio's 2023 Unconference be YOUR OASIS on Friday April 21. Join us for rejuvenating conversation and replenishing nourishment as we reflect on and reclaim...

Finding the Center by Learning from Design Teaching When we investigate teaching improvement methods, pedagogical methods that promise classroom transformation and engaged learners send us in circles . Active learning, un-grading, interdisciplinary groupwork, peer to peer review, and self-assessment to name a few. The design fields already practice many of...

Join us for a blend of comments from a panel of faculty plus open discussion to explore the uses of chatbot programs , inspired (?) in part by the explosion of attention brought on by chatGPT’s sudden emergence into many aspects of our lives, including higher ed. Trying to build...

In Hawai'i , we connect with our community and our pasts through the traditions that have been passed down to us from our ancestors and kapuna in our community. One such tradition is making lei to show our aloha for each other and celebrate milestones. As we thread together memories...

Play and playfulness often get pushed to the margins of life after we leave childhood, leading to an overly serious and rigid existence. Within academia, as in life, this can lead to dullness, burnout, loss of passion and purpose, and deviation from our true selves. Play can be the key...

Tuesday, November 29 @ 3:30pm MT Join co-editors-in-chief and members of the editorial board as we launch a new open resource, cross- disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal. A partnership between ThinqStudio, the EdD Higher Education concentration, and the University of Colorado Denver Association of Lecturers and Instructors (UCDALI), Adjunctification will include research...