+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

Contact information – ellen.stevens@ucdenver.edu joni.dunlap@ucdenver.edu