MyStory: Scary Head…

This work is an example of critical autoethnographic study of the writer’s personal experiences. In this particular study, I share my experiences while wearing a headscarf in Turkey, and my desire to settle down in United States in order to pursue my academic career. Due to the political changes in Turkey and United States, my experiences while wearing a headscarf in academia and social environments triggered me to write a reflection about them. In this article, my goal is to deconstruct the symbolic meanings of the Muslim headscarf in social spaces. In addition, the piece will show my “double consciousness feelings of the societies in which I live in

Chapter 6- #DigitalPowerups: Creating Safe and Brave Spaces in Online Discussions to Support Student Choice and Voice

When structured effectively, online discussions can create safe and brave spaces (Murphy et al., 2020) for students to engage in meaningful dialogue surrounding traditionally difficult topics, like gender and sexuality. Yet it can be challenging to motivate students to participate in online discussions (Moore, 2021). In this chapter, we show how the #digitalpowerups strategy provides an innovative and effective way for instructors to engage students in higher-order online discussion by developing Habits of Mind skills, such as applying past knowledge to new situations, thinking about your thinking (metacognition), listening and understanding with empathy, thinking interdependently, responding with wonder and awe, and striving for accuracy (Al-Zakri & Al-Jubair, 2020; Costa & Kallick, 2009)

Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success

Although content knowledge remains at the heart of college teaching and learning, forward-thinking instructors recognize that we must also provide 21st-century college students with transferable skills (sometimes called portable intellectual abilities) to prepare them for their futures (Vazquez, 2020; Ritchhart, 2015; Venezia & Jaeger, 2013; Hazard, 2012). To “grow their capacity as efficacious thinkers to navigate and thrive in the face of unprecedented change” (Costa et al., 2023), students must learn and improve important study skills and academic dispositions throughout their educational careers. If we do not focus on skills-building in college courses, students will not be prepared for the challenges that await them after they leave institutions of higher education. If students are not prepared for these postsecondary education challenges, then it is fair to say that college faculty have failed them

Reducing Stressors in the Classroom via Using Digital PowerUps During Pandemic

In this session, we scrutinize how the Digital PowerUps strategy offers a dynamic virtual community in Introduction to Psychology and Social Inequality courses. PowerUps are keywords displayed as hashtags that are associated with corresponding prompts in online discussion forums allowing for student choice and voice. Utilizing the powerups will not only help students structure their responses, but they will also help students to enrich their discussion boards and use it as a forum to interact and learn from one another. Using this strategy students identify or code their responses (three main posts and two peer-response posts) by using the appropriate hashtag that corresponds to the powerups. We will analyze students\u27 feedback and 13 weeks of the online discussion contents in a qualitative approach. This session will show how digital PowerUps offers student-centered learning environment for students to have their choices and voices so that they feel comfortable to express themselves even in difficult subject matters

Black Lives Matter: Local Perspectives

A conversation with USU faculty on the historical and contemporary significance of the movement for Black lives, the potential for this movement to address systemic racism and white supremacy and ways the USU community can support this movement locally. The conversation features Dr. Angela Diaz, Assistant Professor of History, Dr. Amy Odum, Professor of Psychology and Gonca Soyer, an Adjunct Professor in Human Development and Family Studies.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/inter_teach-in/1002/thumbnail.jp

Black Lives Matter: Local Perspectives Podcast

This podcast features Dr. Angela Diaz, Assistant Professor of History, Dr. Amy Odum, Professor of Psychology and Gonca Soyer, an Adjunct Professor in Human Development and Family Studies.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/inter_teach-in/1010/thumbnail.jp

Outcome of Very Low and Low Birth Weight Infants with Esophageal Atresia: Results of the Turkish Esophageal Atresia Registry

Introduction The data of the Turkish Esophageal Atresia Registry (TEAR) was evaluated to define the outcome of very low birth weight (VLBW) and low BW (LWB) infants with esophageal atresia (EA)