Brainfriendly Ways To Memorise Creatively #RSCON 2014
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Memorising language chunks creatively helps students to develop fluency whilst improving critical thinking skills. The ideas are short, practical, and based on experience, research, educational psychology , technology and best practice. and experimentation. Inspired by literature, poetry, arts, mnenmonics, mindmapping, visual thinking, and multi-sensory associations. Practical ideas for really helping students to remember language through whole-brain multi-sensory engagement that involves, makes them think, teaches them how to enjoy challenge and be creative. This is suitable for general education, online learning, traditional set-ups and blended/flipped learning scenarios. WHERE mind MEETS language through THE ARTS, TECHNOLOGY and PSYCHOLOGY
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Brainfriendly Ways To Memorise Creatively #RSCON 2014
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- 7. Ten more ideas for movie clips and mindmaps
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- 10. Ten more ideas for movie clips and mindmaps
- 12. 1) Give students the title of a movie clip they are about to watch. Handout blank mind map templates that you have prepared, either on hard copy or digitally. Have them brainstorm in groups or pairs. Tell students to imagine what the movie will be about and add words and images to their map to represent the storylines they predict. Then watch the movies as a whole class. Ask students if the real movie was very different from their stories. Watch again and ask students to map the similarities and differences on a new mindmap. Now put students into pairs from different groups. They must compare and contrast their maps and tell each other about the similarities and differences.
- 14. 2) Follow-up from idea one or stand-alone activity. As a follow –up students write the story of their imaginary movie or even create their own movies using digital technology. As a stand-alone activity, you can give students a topic based on a theme you have in your course book. Give them key words in mind map form for revision and tell them to put these words into a topic-based story or their own movie.
- 16. 3) Follow-up to idea two or else as a stand-alone activity. Students create their stories or movies at home. Then they create mind maps of their movies for class. In class each student or pair/group presents the mind maps to the class. Divide the class into teams. The class have to guess what the story or movie is about based on the map, asking only yes/no questions. The map should be large enough for everyone to see or else on an o overhead projecter/or in digital format.
- 18. 4) Alternative follow-up to three or stand-alone activity Students create movies. They write the story of the movie at home. Next day they read out their stories to the class. In this case there are no visual aids, so it’s essentially a listening activity. Students listen and map the story. Have map templates handy so as not to waste time. They just add keywords to their maps. Afterwards get students to retell the stories to each other and compare with the original. Then they can watch the short movie. Finally, they can embellish/design their maps with images and display around the class, keep in special project folders or display online through blogs etc.
- 20. 6) Alternatives to idea five. Instead of letting student just map anything they want, ask them to focus on particular parts of the story. For example: Ask them to mind map the characters as they imagine their characteristics and appearance. Ask them to mind map only nouns, verbs, events. Alternative, divide them into teams. Each team has a separate focus, some map the events, others the ideas, other the verbs, others different parts or speech, others map the feelings or mood.
- 21. Group one Transcript No video Group two Images, no sound visual plots, words 6
- 22. 7) Oral storytelling & mixed media. Sample lesson plan from my website and the movie “My Left Foot” More from the Irish Film Society
- 24. 8) Movie-grammar maps. Imagine a Mr. Bean movie clip. Mr. Beam always does ridiculous things. Example of grammar to practice: should/shouldn’t have Hand out mind map templates with lexical branches (and/or images) and should/shouldn’t along the branches. Students watch the movie and write down what Mr. Bean should/shouldn’t have done. What others ideas can you come up with?
- 26. 8) Jumbled words Give students sets of jumbled words in groups. Tell them to arrange the words onto a mind map and then act out their stories for the class. Then show everyone the real movie –clip and tell them to map the true story
- 28. 9) Impressions and feelings Find an emotive movie clip and let the class watch it. Also hand out simple mindmap templates and tell them to jot down their feelings onto branches which represent scenes in the movie.. (option) Roleplay that they are at the cinema with friends or date & they chat about the movie after, describing their impressions. Example from Film English
- 30. 10) Adjectives Students watch movie clip and write down adjectives to describe different parts of the movie scenes as depicted on mind map branches. After put them into groups and tell them to put all of their adjectives together. Now they can direct their own movies scenes using these adjectives to make up a story. Poetry ideas
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