Students will be able to: Define ‘criticality’ and ‘academic voice’. Apply critical thinking to an everyday situation. Make a decision and justify it. Explain how a sound knowledge base underpins critical thinking. Download resources: Developing Critical Thinking for Nursing Students session slides (PowerPoint file)

Includes: Simple guidelines to support best practice learning material design. Identify key practices to improve digital accessibility. Download resources: Designing for diverse learners (PowerPoint file)

A gentle warning: The following slides contain information about the topic of eugenics, and ask you to consider examples of groups of people who have been treated as ‘unfit’, therefore the content should be delivered with caution and sensitivity. Download resources: Augmentation (PowerPoint file) Augmentation – Accompanying worksheet used with PowerPoint (MS Word file)

This workshop activity facilitates participants to practice their groupwork skills whilst negotiating a response to a given scenario. There are 5 scenarios (one for each group of students) in the Group work skills MS Word document, and one MS Word tutor guidance sheet. Download resources: Groupwork workshop tutor guide (MS Word file) Practice your group work skills (MS Word file)

Download resources: Notetaking for better learning and assessments (PowerPoint file)

1. Practise a range of strategies for academic essay planning and writing.2. Practise strategies to address the emotional side of studying3. Develop independent study techniques. Download resources: 1. Creative Learning Activity Cards_Planning (pptx file) 2. Creative Learning Activity Cards_Research (pptx file) 3. Creative Learning Activity Cards_Thinking (pptx file) 4. Creative Learning Activity Cards_Writing (pptx file) 5. Creative Learning Activity Cards_Wild Card (pptx file) Creative Learning Activity Cards_All (pptx file)

• Develop strategies for reading and making notes from academic texts.• Analyse the arguments, findings and significance of findings presented in academic texts.• Evaluate academic texts.• Assemble readings in preparation for use in dissertation or final year project. Download resources: Reading Analysis Worksheet (docx file) Reading Response Worksheet (docx file) Reading Synthesis Matrix (docx file) Reading Camp Programme for Staff (docx file) Reading Camp Activity Instructions for Students (pptx file)

This workshop looks at different free write activities that can be used to unblock academic writing – and hopefully introduce the notion of write to learn (and thus drafting and re-drafting work). Links to Peter Elbow video clips – and a light and accessible free write activity, ‘the path’, that can just be fun, can be elaborated upon to support a creative writing session – or can be discussed as a demonstration of just how much can be written when time and space is made for the task. Download Resources Download academic writing with free writing slides (MS Powerpoint)

This session explores typical approaches to academic writing (fear and loathing) that can be discussed with students. There is space to insert an assignment question or part thereof, thus there is the opportunity to start writing on an assignment right there in class. Download Resources Download workshop slides

Download Draw to Learn workshop This PDF captures a whole workshop that has been used used at London Met with staff – and with students – to get more creative approaches to getting learning started. When using creative techniques, you could tell students that there are extra marks available for risk taking and creative approaches. You could also set an assignment task of devising a teaching and learning resource for some aspect of the module. Activities: Run a Draw to Learn session with a group of students. Start a session by asking students to draw what they want from it. …

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