collegeteaching102
TRANSCRIPT
+College Teaching
102:
Discussion, Lecture, Testing, and Technology…
Ellen Stevens & Joni DunlapCenter for Faculty DevelopmentUniversity of Colorado Denver
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Emotional arousal helps the brain learn.
Audiences check out after 10 minutes, but you can keep grabbing them back by telling narratives or creating events rich in emotion.
~ John Medina (2008), Brain Rules, pg. 94
People don’t pay attention to boring things.
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What are your concerns, questions, and ideas about
facilitating discussions?
+Community
Expectations
Trust
Relevance
Modeling
Practice
Shared responsibilities
Balanced voices
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“Maybe if I sit in the backshe won’t call on me…”
+Ensuring prereading
Setting expectations
Garnering enthusiasm
Establishing relevance
Assigning readings carefully
Framing with questions, structure
+Ensuring prereading
Setting expectations
Garnering enthusiasm
Establishing relevance
Assigning readings carefully
Framing with questions, structure
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Neil Postman once wrote, “Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.”
Do you agree or disagree with Postman?
Neil Postman once wrote, “Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.”
Why do you think Postman wrote this? What evidence do you believe he would reference to support his perspective? What would you say to change his mind, or at least present an alternative perspective? What is your viewpoint, and why?
Using thought-provoking prompts
+Ensuring prereading
Setting expectations
Garnering enthusiasm
Establishing relevance
Assigning readings carefully
Framing with questions, structure
+Prompting discussion prep Responding to prompts in advance
Reviewing discussion expectations in advance
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“If I’m lucky, the same people who always answer the
questionswill do so again today…”
+Structuring discussions, part 1
Basic formatPhysical space
Group size
Length of time
Modeling
Extension questions
Time-outs
+Structuring discussions, part 2
Role assignment
Time manager
Summarizer
Recorder
Devil’s Advocate
Provocateur
Fact checker
+Structuring discussions, part 3
Discussion protocols
Provides structure
Defines roles and level of participation
Balances voices and time
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“The Final Word”
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“How many times do I need to talk to meet
the participation requirement?”
+Assessing discussions
Shared responsibility
One-minute papers
Discussion rubric/assessment tool
+Discussion assessments, part 1
Shared responsibilities
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One-minute papers
Discussion assessments, part 2
+Discussion assessments, part 3Discussion rubric/assessment tool
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+One of our challenges…
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What are your concerns, questions, and ideas about
lecturing?
+Purpose of lecture
Arouse interest, gain attention
Clarify content, present content in a different way
Demonstrate skills, actions
Provide link between theory/readings and practice
Attend to questions, challenges, perspectives, ideas
Assess readiness to proceed with new content
+Students-do-something-now strategies
+Low & high tech
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYrKPoVFwg
+Think ~ Pair ~ Share
+Interview
+Point-counterpoint
+Fishbowl
+Once upon a time…
+Mini lectures, Pecha Kucha & Ignite
+People’s choice lecture
+A break in the action
+One-minute papers & quizzes
+What about PowerPoint?
+Change it up
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What are your concerns, questions, and ideas about
testing?
+Test Anxiety
+Loopholes
+“Creative” responses
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"Its curvy, with a higher bit at the end and a rather aesthetically pleasing slope downwards towards a pretty flat strait bit. The actual graph itself consists of 2 straight lines meeting at the lower left hand corner of the graph and moving away at a 90 anger each line has an arrow
head on the end."
+Cheating & plagiarizing
+Collaborative exams
+Student exam construction
+Got-it-’til-you-get-it exam
+The People’s Choice exam
+On-the-spot quiz construction
+Quiz-plus-one
+Voting a question off the island
+Stump the professor
+Phone a friend
+Name that answer
The word cat is found under this letter in the alphabet.
Colors that end in urple.
The sound a doggie makes.
+Quizzes on collaborative projects
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Write the best test question for today’s workshop…
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+Introducing technologies & fun!
Re-connect
Re-assess
Re-invent
Re-minisce
+Reconnect: 5 minute phone call
+Reconnect: Virtual Paper Bag
Flickr.com
Wordle.net
Picnik.com
Songza.org
Prezi.com
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Via« http://www.flickr.com/photos/23416171@N05/
« http://www.flickr.com/photos/47120078@N05/
« http://www.flickr.com/photos/47272513@N07/
« http://www.flickr.com/photos/dungfang/sets/72157623331524824/
Virtual paper bag:Five images
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CHILDHOOD
Far away from where she lives now is a place that she holds dearly in her heart. It is where she returns for solace when times turn a little stressful. It still has the power to comfort her and reassure her. No wonder her favorite vacation spots are still by the water’s edge.
Virtual paper bag: 350-word story
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Via http://prezi.com/fz1foidonrdu/
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Virtual paper bag:Word cloud
+Reassessing: Surveys
+Reassessing: What are we learning?
Via http://tinyurl.com/275xfvc
+Reinventing: Guest lectures
+Reinventing: Story galleries
+Reinvent: Students take charge
Via http://commonvalues.weebly.com/index.html
+Reinvent: Alternative approaches
Viahttp://www.vcasmo.com/video/SuzieRose/8202http://csuth.org/ignitehttp://tinyurl.com/2brz5gphttp://tinyurl.com/2fbkgy7
Music video Pecha kucha/Ignite CD cover w/liner notes Comic book Movie poster Digital story Radio program Game Interpretive dance!
+Reminisce: Lessons Learned
Via http://www.flickr.com/groups/it6710spring2010/
+Reminisce: Zoltar
+Reminisce: Superhero powers
+Reminisce: Celebrate!
+Center for Faculty Development
Website - http://www.ucdenver.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/center-for-faculty-development/Pages/default.aspx
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