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Interactive teaching
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Steve Draper,
as part of the Interactive Lectures website)
This is some notes following out from Hake's papers on improving learning by
interactive lectures.
- Hake's work reflect the fact that all this is HIGHLY developed in one,
and perhaps only one, area: teaching basic "mechanics" (Newton's laws) in both
high school and first year university: to engeineers, but also others. Often,
students who must take it, but don't want to major in physics.
There's a big literature reflecting the fact that this teaching often goes
poorly. And even when students get high marks, they don't do well if tested
more carefully for understanding (as opposed to getting numerical "problems"
right).
- There are number of apparently different methods (instructional methods)
that have been tried succesfully. Hake calls them all "interactive
engagement".
- SDI: socratic dialogue
- Modelling:
- OCS
- Mazur's concept tests:
- MBL (computer labs)
- CPI: collaborative peer instruction
These all work. Other methods that merely have great teachers, carefully
performed lectures and demonstrations etc. have failed, relatively speaking.
Electronic gadgets like the handsets may support some of these methods.
they are NOT the most important element, but they do seem to add value.
Still, the learning depends sensitively not on the use of the technology but
on whether crucial pedagogic elements are present: e.g. whether the learners
really try to explain and justify their views to someone, ....
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