While we know from research that people learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone, “simply adding pictures to words does not guarantee an improvement in learning,” (Mayer, 2005, pg. 31). Across STEM disciplines, students are encouraged to show their understandings using multiple representations, including visual, symbolic, verbal, contextual, and physical models (Lesh et al., 1987). Join us in the COEHS STEP Lab for a workshop to help faculty increase STEM students’ learning by using and translating among multiple sensemaking formats. Dr. Stacy Boote, Associate Professor, College of Education and Human Services, will share instructional strategies and virtual resources to design and implement collaborative real-time platforms (e.g., Google Slides) to help students solve problem tasks together during F2F and LiveOnline classes. Bring your laptops.

Lunch will be served so registration is required. Please register by 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10^th.  This event is hosted by UNF’s Northeast Florida Center for STEM Education and the Office of Faculty Excellence. Please email Brian Lane, brian.lane@unf.edu, or Stacy Boote, s.boote@unf.edu, with questions or if you need accommodations.