One Minute Thinking to Share Muddy Maps on TV

Hargis

AgendaWhat is [Active] Learning?

• One-Minute Paper

• Think/Pair/Share

• Muddiest Point

• Concept Mapping

• TV Commercial

Learner Outcome

Following this session, the learner will be able to integrate at least one of the active learning methods shared during this session into their classroom during the first part of the next semester.

“What the Best College Teachers Do”Ken Bain, 2010

• know how we learn;• teaching as serious intellectual endeavor;• expect more from their students;• outcomes reflect what is expected for life;• environment to explore, analyze, synthesize

and construct meaning in own ways;• have formative, systematic program to assess

themselves and students.

Learning

– change in the capacity for behavior;

– endures over time;

– occurs through experience.

Schunk (1996)

How Do We Learn?

When and how did YOU learn something well?

What blocks learning?

What is Active Learning?

• Paulson & Faust (2002) - anything that students do other than passively listen to lecture.

• Short writing, complex group exercises in which students apply course material to "real life" situations and new problems.

One Minute Paper

• Learners write for 1 minute on a specific question.

Please take 1 minute to answer:

“What one or two low threshold changes can I make in my classroom to increase student engagement in a systematic, enduring way?”

Think/Pair/Share

• Learners reconsider a concept, then compare possible ideas with a partner before sharing with the class or next step activities.

“Find a partner OUTSIDE of your discipline and each take one minute to share your one minute paper ideas.”

Muddiest Point

• Like the One-Minute Paper, but asks for the “most confusing” point instead.

“Next, write down portions of your 1 minute paper, which could be

unclear to others.”

Concept Mapping

• Write keywords onto notes and then organize into a flowchart. Good for:

• Brain Storming

• Complex ideas

• Explicitly integrating new and old knowledge

• Assess/diagnose

Example Carbon Cycle

Concept Map

Concept Map

1. Write one term/Post-It related to YOUR Low Threshold Method to Engage Students.

2. Gather Post-Its

3. Stand up.

4. Move.

5.Develop CM with new Post-Its

TV Commercial

• In small groups, learners create a story board for a 30-second TV commercial.

“In your Concept Map groups, create a story-board of active learning ideas collectively to produce a TV Commercial”

Before we end…

Please write…1. A one sentence summary of this session.

1. One idea that you might use.

1. One word that describes how you feel.

Thank You!

I have a list of 145 Active Methods for those interested

Jace Hargis, PhD