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3) GET STUDENTS OFF THEIR LIT- TLE SCREENS AND ONTO
THE BIG ONES
For greater accessibility, impose this rule: Have students use the big displays at their own team tables during their group work. That’ll help those students who are hard-of-hearing or deaf by making sure the emphasis for speaking and writing can be heard and seen by everybody at the table — not just those sitting close to the person tapping out notes on his or her laptop. Another advantage of this approach is that when everybody on the team can see what’s being documented, possible blunders can be exposed if the person capturing the group input heads in the wrong direction.
Tip! If the display is high-resolution and interactive, all the better, because multiple team members can put up their own work simultaneously and any of the participants can make annotations on the display.
INSPIRING CREATIVITY FOR ALL
Lectures have long been considered the instructional pinnacle of expression and personality — at least for the person standing at the front of the room. But by embedding greater interaction through active learning and collaboration, your instructional practices will become more creative and personal not just for you, but also for your students.
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INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE
If you’re seeking new ideas for implementing active learning, California State University, Los Angeles has three resources that can help jumpstart your thinking.
Active Learning Big Cards v2. Cal State’s Center for Effective Teaching & Learning has adapted 36 active learning techniques from other institutions, from the use of “affinity grouping,” in which groups identify common themes on a topic, to “turn to a partner,” where students share their thinking with peers.
Active Learning for the College Classroom. This catalog of 29 techniques for active learning was compiled by two professors, one teaching in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and one teaching from the Department of Philosophy, and covers exercises not just for groups but also for individual students.
Active Learning Session Plan. This downloadable PDF document helps to plan out an active learning session, by encouraging the instructor to think about the subject matter to be covered, the logistics and the timeline.
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