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Join UCATT and Top Hat representatives in person for an afternoon of exploring strategies around keeping your students engaged in and outside of your classroom.
There will be time in the morning for open office hours to come ask Top Hat experts any questions you have about the platform, what support is available, or to just better understand its capabilities. Then we will dive into back-to-back workshop sessions listed below.
Reclaiming Connection: Engaging Distracted Learners in the Age of AI
12pm - 1pm
Complimentary lunch provided during this session
In an age of constant distraction, attention is a precious and limited resource. Designing for learning is also designing for attention—an opportunity to nurture, protect, and sustain it. This workshop will explore strategies for engaging students across the entire learning journey: from piquing curiosity by framing a course around a big question, to modeling engagement and creating a classroom climate that invites participation. We’ll examine practical methods for “warming the course,” and sustaining focus through interactive content. Drawing on insights from theatre and learning science— with examples of how tools like Top Hat can bring these strategies to life—participants will walk away with practices to foster connection and design learning experiences that resonate in an attention-scarce world.
Register for Reclaiming Connection
Extending Engagement with Top Hat Pages
1pm - 2pm
In this session, learn methods to incorporate formative assessment and metacognitive activities into your course materials that extend engagement beyond class time. Explore Pages, a content creation tool within the Top Hat platform, and learn how you can tailor your own materials, Open Educational Resources or interactive eTexts, to achieve your course objectives.
You’ll leave this session knowing:
- About the dedicated support available to you from the University of Arizona and Top Hat
- How to customize content to make learning current, relevant and inclusive
- The data available to you to help identify where gaps might be