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Motivating Active and Group Learning

Learn why active and group learning are important for flagging attention, critical thinking, varied learning styles, constructivist knowledge building, communicating ideas, and more. Discover effective strategies for motivating students and designing engaging exercises.

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Motivating Active and Group Learning

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  1. Motivating Active and Group Learning Steve Wolfman University of Washington CCSC-NW 2002

  2. Why Active and Group Learning? • Flagging attention [McConnell’s meds, Bligh’s heart rate/memory] • Critical/Higher-order thinking [Bloom’s Taxonomy] • Varied learning styles [Felder’s Learning Styles] • Constructivist knowledge building • “ZoPeDs” [Vygotsky’s Zones of Proximal Development] • Communicating ideas Steve Wolfman - UW

  3. Why worry about motivation? • Help students understand why active and group learning • Get students to • Engage • Connect • Communicate • Interact Steve Wolfman - UW

  4. Rules of Thumb for Motivation • Disclose your reasons • Diversify your exercises • Make engaging exercises • Design for groups Steve Wolfman - UW

  5. Rule of Thumb #1:Disclose Tell students what you and they are doing and why; follow up! • first day shout • learning styles descriptions [Thomas et al.] • explaining group work/learning styles results [Deibel] • problems w/motivation w/out explicit follow-up Steve Wolfman - UW

  6. Rule of Thumb #2:Diversify Embrace diversity in your problems, your students’ solutions, and in your students. • data structures problems [Deibel] • syntactic salt • “little sister” CAT [VanDeGrift] • prime words Steve Wolfman - UW

  7. Rule of Thumb #3:Make engaging problems Create problems with intrinsic interest. • disequilibration [Reed] • Let’s Make a Deal, board problem • experimentation • Sort Detective [Levine] • real-world connection • execution time w/out loops, real clients in SE • group atmosphere • game shows, show-and-tell 1st part 2/3 of original 2nd part 4 + 1st Steve Wolfman - UW

  8. Rule of Thumb #4:Design for groups Encourage “interdependence” in groups [Johnson&Johnson, Felder&Brent] • challenging problems • resource interdependence • Jigsaw Learning, Latent Jigsaw [Deibel] • variety of perspectives • gender/diversity issues Corollary: get to know your students! Steve Wolfman - UW

  9. Bonus Rule of Thumb:Manage Expectations Steve Wolfman - UW

  10. References • Jeffrey McConnell on Active Learning • Johnson and Johnson on Cooperative and Collaborative Learning • Dave Reed on disequilibration • David Levine on experimentation • Eric Roberts on engaging the group Steve Wolfman - UW

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