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Lecture Is Dead!

Long Live Lecture!How and why to make class time more exciting and rewarding for your students.

Rob EbyBlinn College Bryan, TX Campus1Lecture is Booooring!So add commercial breaks !First 10 vs. last 40 recall is laughable.

2Information Impact and Factors Affecting Recall - Burns, Ralph A.Paper presented at the Annual National Conference on Teaching Excellence and Conference of Administrators (7th, Austin, TX, May 22-25, 1985).

If All You Do Is Lecture

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35%3Ten and Two, Hike!10 minute lecture 2 minutes to chew on it

Similar to commercial breaksBUT you engage the studentsThink of a TV program

4What type of commercials?Minute papersClickers poll anywhere and suchTurn to classmateExample in bookWhat is wrong here?Group quizzes5end of or after class ideasMinute papersWhat do you think was the goal today?Clearest or muddiest point?Write your own questionExit quizzesSolve and Classmates Grade6Make Them Read!Readings or videos out of classGUIDE THE READING!Follow up with quizzes Help students learn how to learn7Teaching EngineeringPhillip C. Wankat & Frank S. Oreovicz, Purdue University

Public Speaking 101Multiply by threeSubtract five.

UNDO Multiply by threeUNDO Subtract five.

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Pictures!Not just any picturesGood pictures

Why is the sum of the first n odd numbers always a square?9Pictorial Superiority EffectOur brains are hard wired for picturesThings written in text are not considered a picture

10INFORMATION72 Hours after exposureRecall from hearing onlyRecall from hearing and pictureINFORMATIONTIONFORMATIONININFORMA11Pictorial Superiority Effect

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13Brain RulesThe brain seems to rely partly on past experience in deciding how to learn new thingsMake sure they understand what is new each timeOur senses evolved to work togetherWe learn best if we stimulate several senses at once.

14Patterns and ConnectionsWe are better at seeing patterns and abstracting the meaning of an event than we are at recording detail.Emotional arousal helps the brain learn.So make it emotional.

15Memory and Brain Rules

Most memories disappear within minutesHow do we make sure it gets into long-term memory?Incorporate new information graduallyRepeat it in timed intervals16Brain RulesBabies are the model of how we learn observation,hypothesis, experiment, conclusion

17Darn Kids these days!This is not just about kids these days this research is decades oldBrains more wired for linear bursts than deep thinking (always on etc.)

18Most Desired Skills - ForbesNo. 1 Critical Thinking No. 2 Complex Problem Solving No. 3 Judgment and Decision-Making No. 4 Active Listening No. 5 Computers and Electronics No. 6 Mathematics Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics and their application.19Find out more!http://tinyurl.com/k3sbgh5

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jeby @ blinn.edu

Blinn College Bryan Campus(next door to Texas A&M)

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