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The Call of the Story:Innovative Approaches in STEM Classrooms
Karobi Moitra PhDCBL Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
Trinity Washington UniversityLilly Conference, Bethesda 30th May 2014
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Learning is not a spectator sport!
Students need to get involved in their own learning
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What are the instructional strategies that get students
involved?
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BIOL 241- Introductory geneticsA Case Study in story telling
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MULTIMEDIALEARNING
• PPT PRESENTTIONS• DESIGNING A
WEBSITE
PAPER CRITIQUE
WRITING• TERM PAPER
• CASE STUDIES• EXAMS
• QUIZZES
FUNGENETICS JEOPARDY
LECTURES
STORY-TELLING
FUNMOVIES
MULTIMEDIATEACHING• YOU TUBE
VIDEOS• DVD’S
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
USED IN BIOL241
PBLGROUP PROBLEM
SOLVINGCASE STUDIESDISCUSSION
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MULTIMEDIALEARNING
• PPT PRESENTTIONS• DESIGNING A
WEBSITE
PAPER CRITIQUE
WRITING• TERM PAPER
• CASE STUDIES• EXAMS
• QUIZZES
FUNGENETICS JEOPARDY
LECTURES
STORY-TELLING
FUNMOVIES
MULTIMEDIATEACHING• YOU TUBE
VIDEOS• DVD’S
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
USED IN BIOL241
PBLGROUP PROBLEM
SOLVINGCASE STUDIESDISCUSSION
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LECTURES
STORY-TELLING
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Biology 241: Introductory Genetics Syllabus
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successful Storytellers will tell you…
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It’s not always about what you say:
It’s how you say it
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Where do You start?
Information overload!
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Look for your story
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The story of us: the incredible journey of man
I read the entire book and condensed it into a 45 min lecture
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Step 1: Build the framework for your story
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Like this:
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Step2: Add your Content
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And you have the perfect storyline…….
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Storytelling in the sciences 101:
Deconstructing the storytelling process
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3 questions:
Why are we here?
Where are we going?
Where did we come from?
1.Have a strong Storyline- bring your audience in
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The journey of the ‘y’ chromosome
2.Element of mystery- don’t give away the ending!
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But how do we know That thisJourney started in africa?
?
3. Let students solve various parts of the mystery with clues (INTERACTIVE)
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We know because we can trace certainDna markers
from human populations
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Markers on dna
A marker on DNA is a landmark that tells you where you are in the genome
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4. Add audio-visual content (you tube videos, DVD movies
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5. Stress that people are as important as the science
Scientists are HUMAN, don’t be afraid of SCIENCE, specially not Genetics!
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The Genographic project and Spencer Wells
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/
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6. Discussion- encourage all students to take part
Introduce the concept of ‘Safe space’
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7. Integrate biological techniques into the story- the boring stuff !
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8. Make the take home message very clear.
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What did you learn?
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• People look different because of isolation and adaptations to different environments
• Underneath all of that we are virtually the same
we are all connected
We are the same
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What percentage of DNA do you share With the person
sitting next to you?
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we share 99.9% of Our Dna with every singleperson On this earth
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9. Let the students apply their knowledge
- case study - paper- website (WIX) - video (Xtranormal), - Journal/map- Poster- Infographic- Concept map etc.
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10. Have fun with it!
Think about how story-telling can be applied across disciplines