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The document discusses how incorporating fun elements into teaching can improve learning outcomes. It provides examples of strategies to make orientation, lectures, class discussions, representing understanding, and assessment more fun and engaging for students. These strategies include using multimedia like photos, music, videos and games to grab students' attention and keep them engaged. Telling narratives and incorporating emotion helps students learn and remember content better. Fun activities can make dry subject matter more compelling and help students connect with the material on a deeper level.
Fun
- 1. What’s fun gotto do with it? Joanna C. Dunlap Center for Faculty Development University of Colorado Denver Joni.Dunlap@ucdenver.edu Superhero powers: work avoidance, mass email deleting, stirring two bowls of hot soup at the same time, knowledge of every pop song from the 1970s, squirrel- chatter translation, and x-ray vision. My favorite color is purple.
- 2. What’s fun gotto do with it? How shall we treat subject matter… so that it will rank as material of reflective inquiry, not as ready-made intellectual pablum to be accepted and swallowed just as if it were something bought at a shop. ~ Dewey (1933), How We Think, pg. 257
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- 5. Professional answer… People don’tpay attention to boring things. Emotional arousal helps the brain learn. Audiences check out after 10 minutes, but you can keep grabbing them back by telling narratives or creating events rich in emotion. ~ Medina (2008), Brain Rules, pg. 94
- 8. Fun = phluff??? Orientation Immediacy Lecture Malleability Class discussions Compellingness Representation of Resonance understanding Assessment Coherence
- 9. Fun = phluff??? Orientation Immediacy Lecture Malleability Class discussions Compellingness Representation Resonance of understanding Coherence Assessment
- 10. Fun strategies for orientation
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- 14. Fun strategies for representingunderstanding
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- 16. Soundtracks http://finetune.com http://songza.com http://blip.fm http://listen.grooveshark.com
- 17. Cloudbusting http://www.wordle.net/
- 18. Virtual paper bag http://flickr.com
- 19. Storytelling, soap operas,& “Naked Came the Manatee” http://voicethread.com http://www.jingproject.com/
- 20. Story galleries http://flickr.com
- 21. Story galleries http://flickr.com
- 22. Roleplaying, part 1 http://www.xtranormal.com
- 23. Fun strategies for assessment
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- 25. Music video Pecha kucha/Ignite CD cover w/liner notes Comic book Movie poster Digital story Radio program Game Interpretive dance! Via http://www.vcasmo.com/video/SuzieRose/8202 http://csuth.org/ignite http://tinyurl.com/2brz5gp http://tinyurl.com/2fbkgy7
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- 27. Final thoughts… I ain’t making this stuff up… I loved all of your “fun” activities. At first I thought I would hate them, that they’d be a big waste of time. But I get it now, and see how they not only helped me get to know you and the others in the class, but actually helped me learn too!!! Thanks for a great class!
Editor's Notes
- #12 Example of orientation story for a workshop on “front-end analysis”
- #13 What superhero powers does an educator need to be effective? What superhero powers does an individual with HIV need to effectively manage her/his healthcare?
- #14 What issues are the community addressing? What questions are people in the community asking about HIV?
- #16 Caption the photo to address an aspect of our healthcare system.
- #22 Another example…
- #23 Telling a loved one that your HIV status is positive.
- #25 Compose questions and appropriate responses