Education – Communication – Transformation
This “bit” has it all. It is unusual, fairly creative, involves music (singing and playing by me, actually), and is fun / funny while still making a valuable point. It has to do with the Web 2.0 mantra: Create, Consume, Remix, and Share. The question? Does that apply to learning? Or is that a recipe for plagiarism and theft?
I will share with you two strategies to consider for both mitigating drift/bloat, as well as helping students actually learn. (By learn, I mean remembering the information AFTER your class is over, not just acing the final and forgetting it all.)
A 15 minute video detailing some effective practices for moving classroom conversations to an online discussion.
Creating professional development for people who genuine want it makes all the difference.
We will get our audience to do, as we show and tell, before reviewing and asking along the way. We will not only help people understand the nuances of critical (modern) learning research specific to Interleaving, Spaced Repetition, the Cognitive Science of learning, Varied Instruction, Generative learning, and Desirable Difficulties, but we will practice these methods at the same time.