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Making your lectures more interactive

Explore the reasons for lecturing, the impact on student learning, and discover activities that promote higher-order thinking. Discuss different levels of learning and identify suitable activities for lectures. Additional resources available.

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Making your lectures more interactive

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  1. Making your lecturesmore interactive Ros O’Leary

  2. Plan • Why do we lecture? • Lecturing and student learning • Activities

  3. Objectives • Describe and discuss different levels of learning • Identify activities suitable for lecturing

  4. Why do we lecture?

  5. “College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either” (Mark Twain)

  6. Activity 1 • Get in pairs

  7. Tell me and I will forgetShow me and I will rememberInvolve me and I will understandStep back and I will act (Chinese proverb)

  8. Bloom’s taxonomy of learning objectives Adapted by Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) Higher level learning Lower level learning

  9. What activities can we use in lectures that encourage higher order learning ?

  10. ACTIVITY 2 • Discuss up to two activities suitable for lecturing in your discipline • Think about what level of learning these activities would help support

  11. What activities can we use in lectures that encourage higher order learning ?

  12. Objectives • Describe different levels of learning • Identify activities suitable for use in lectures

  13. Further reading • See handout

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