1. Application Centered Learning
Miles College Faculty Development
Dr. Kommidi

2. Gratitude

6. So, what will be you
learning/teaching today?
• Life Lessons
• Are they important?
• Do we have to teach it?
• Different example of Interactive lectures
Talking along
Quiz with discussing
• Teaching them appreciation of the subject
Starting with a why
Applications in their majors/dream job

7. Application Centered Teaching
OR
Application Centered Learning

8. What are the characteristics of a teacher ?
What makes you a teacher?

9. Classroom in 1350

12. Teachers Expectations of Students

13. Students Expectations of Teachers

14. Let’s learn about Earth!

15. We are part of

16. Our main source of energy is

17. There are 400 billions of stars in our

18. There are 100 to 200 billion
galaxies in our

19. Awesome Tips For Happy and
Healthy Life…
• 30 minutes of ____________
• Sit in Silence for at least 10 minutes each day
• Live with 3 E’s Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy
• Eat more food that grows on ____________
• Sleep 8 hours a day
• Drink plenty of ____________
• Play more games
• Read more ___________ than you did last month
• Dream more while you are awake
• Try to make at least 3 people smile each day
• No matter how you feel, _____up, _____ up and _____ up
• When you are awake and alive in the morning thank ___ for it.

20. Dr. Seuss Quotes
• Today you are you, that is truer then true. There Is no one
alive who is Youer than you.
• Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! 98 ¾ percent
guaranteed.
• Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s a
great balancing act.
• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. Nothing is
going to get better, It’s not.
• If you never did, you should. The things are fun and Fun is
good.
• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The
more tat you learn, the more places you’ll go.
• Only you can control your future

21. Earth- Rotation
What happens if Earth stops rotating around the
sun?
1. Earth will fly away
2. Time stops
3. Nothing will change
4. It will collapse into the sun
5. None of the above

22. Circus Application

23. Coffee in the car
What is the best time to sip your coffee when
driving to your work?
1. When you are making a turn
2. When you are taking a turn and you are on cruise
3. When you are going on a
straight road
4. When you are going on a
straight road on a cruise

24. Cognitive capacity
We have unlimited cognitive capacity?
1. True
2. False
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyl

25. Cognition- a scare resource
What is the cognitive capacity(data processing
speed) of our brain?
1. 1000 Mbits/s
2. 42 Mbits/s
3. 126 bits/s
4. 3 Gbits/s

26. Cognition- a scare resource
What is the cognitive capacity(data processing
speed) of our brain?
1. 1000 Mbits/s (Modem 2014)
2. 42 Mbits/s(4G)
3. 126 bits/s (Human Brain)
4. 3 Gbits/s (My Office Computer)

27. Physics

28. The Journey…
• Article critic, Applications of physics
• Share it with the class
• Discussion board about the topic selection
• Selecting 5 applications
• Paper
• Presentation
• Peer grading (self grading)

29. Article

30. Discussion board
• https://app.schoology.com/course/331298979
/materials/discussion/view/342253607

31. Tidbits…

32. Student Power Point
Example

33. Physics

35. Vision Boards

36. Students Testimonials….

39. How was it?
How will you rate this presentation?
1. Not Bad
2. Bad
3. Good
4. Awesome
5. I don’t know what to say