Tell me what I need to know Level 1 student induction using

interactive handsets

E. Yao, L. Love, Q. Cutts and S. Draper

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Outline

Invariance of physical laws

Relative nature of simultaneity

Relativity of time

Relativity of length

Energy momentum relation

Introduction

Demo

Scheme

Reflections

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Using interactive handsets for reflection

- Bowskill: Student generated PDP

Traditional briefing / orientation & reflection

student anxieties

sense of community

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/bowskill/

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“Most university websites don't show you information you want to know, they just show you the information that they want you to know. That's quite stupid really.”

- quote from a sixth-former

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Demo

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Scheme

Science student induction using a novel recipe.

Big success with the students.

•  Asked them about their concerns about being a student here

•  Got them to discuss it

•  Assembled a representation (using EVS) of the groups’ concerns as a whole

•  Got older students to comment on how they addressed each concern

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The bigger picture

Mentor session: elicit their retrospective and prospective concerns (about the year they just completed, and the new year starting); and their ideas about solutions.

Level 1 session: elicit their prospective concerns, and possibly thoughts on finding solutions. Panel of mentors go over the concerns & comment on the solutions they favour for each.

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Details of scheme

•  Ask students to write down what their chief concern is

•  Get them to discuss this with the 3 nearest people

•  Get each group to text in their joint chief concern

•  The presenter groups these into top 6?, 9? Concerns

•  Get everyone (EVS) to rate amount of concern they personally have for each of the shortlisted ones

•  Sort them by accumulated concern levels: show that display

Snowballing:

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Nick Bowskill’s L-design

•  Student generated PDP

•  Group construction of common ground on group-relevant and significant matters.

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