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Welcome to Innovation Possible!
(Please make sure you get a sticky tab…)
Watch out for me and my Tips
and Tricks!
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Welcome to Innovation Possible!
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For this session, we’d like you to wear two hats…
Student
Instructor
I’m also wearing a HAT!
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Our Challenge One challenge we all have in common… How do we “engage an unengaged group?”
Have you ever had this
student in
class?
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Why is engagement so challenging? Innovation can be unsettling Lack of time Content coverage milestones Access to technology Participant resistance Others?
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What’s our purpose today?
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Techniques and StrategiesDuring today’s Instructional Innovation Conference, you’ll learn more about some of these strategies…
Movement Disruptive Learning Gaming and Gamification The Power of Collaboration/Communication Building a Classroom Community
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Techniques and StrategiesBut most importantly…
Don’t be afraid to innovate Don’t be afraid to fail Don’t be afraid to have fun
Remember - if you have fun, they will have fun…
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Let’s try to incorporate a few of these techniques into today’s workshop
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Let’s break into groups…
BLUE
GREEN
RED
YELLOW
Left
Left/Cen
terRight/Center
Right
Techniques: Movement and Disruption
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The name of today’s game
WWYD?!?
Sounds intense! I hope it doesn’t end up being stupid!
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Rules….Watch/Listen/Brainstorm Each team will come up on stage
Short scenario video You will have 2 minutes to huddle and brainstorm solutions
Audience will do the same
Share/Shout Teams will then share their top solutions
After that, the audience will have time to “shout out” their ideas
At the end, we’ll share some ideas from the Instructional Innovation Committee
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Ready?
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Hold on a second…You should employ a
strategy here!
Since people hate to come up on stage, you should
give one group a “GET OFF THE STAGE FREE CARD”
Technique: Gamification (also helps to save time)
GET OFF THE STAGE
FREE CARD
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What the squirrel wants – the squirrel gets!
One team will win a “GET OFF THE STAGE FREE CARD” card
Let’s pick the winner…
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Now we are ready!
Technique: Building Collaboration
BLUE TEAM:Are you ready for your mission?
WWYD?!?
Technique: Building Classroom Community
Blue Scenario!https://vimeo.com/dtcc/review/136306339/d53de3c8bf
The First “BIG Test:You’ve recently worked very hard to redesign your course.
You’re excited. You feel like your students are really getting it! Before long, it’s big test time. Your students arrive and take
the exam. After the exam, you’re feeling great. But soon, you realize…there is a problem. After grading the test, you realize
that over half of your students failed. What do you do?
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What did the Instructional Innovation Committee think?
I would: Analyze results Compare with what I did in class Verify test items Discuss results with students / get their perspective Make plan for revising student grades - likely another test to allow students to
show they met objectives.
This is a great learning opportunity for both students and instructors. I would first discuss the issue with my students and reassure them that tests
are not meant to "fail" students; tests are meant to assess learning. Offer what is called Error Analysis. In this process, students are given their tests back and allowed to use their
notes and textbooks to redo the incorrect questions. Ultimately would lead to a redesign / retest.
WWYD?!?Red Scenario!
https://vimeo.com/dtcc/review/136306340/a85848d779
Singing with the Social Media Blues….You’ve recently planned a virtual fieldtrip for your students. As part of the
experience, you incorporated several technology-based active and collaborative activities. The feedback from your class was overwhelmingly positive. You feel
like you’ve “Nailed it!” You’re excited! You can’t wait to design the next activity…but all is not perfect. The following week, you notice a social media post from one of your students. It says, “My instructors at Delaware Tech are
such dorks. They totally don’t get me. You can’t imagine the dumb things they make us do. #seriously???” The wind has been taken out of your sails…
What do you do?
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What did the Instructional Innovation Committee think?Don't feed the trolls! Seriously!
I wouldn't sweat a lone negative comment if the feedback from most of the class was very positive.
If I felt a need to follow-up with the student, I definitely would NOT do so on social media.
Whenever the wind gets taken out of my sails, I try to remind myself of all the good I do for students.
Hmmm...I'm not sure you address it. If it is overwhelmingly positive, then you can chalk it up to not everyone is going to love everything you do.
Don’t panic! Have patience and confidence in your ability!
WWYD?!?Green Scenario!
https://vimeo.com/dtcc/review/136306338/6f2d670e58
One more day….For better or for worse, your semester has been extended by one day. So, you’ve gone one last chance to develop one last
innovative instructional experience to help your students understand a REALLY difficult concept. In other words, if you
had one more day to teach… What do you do?
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What did the Instructional Innovation Committee think?
I would take them on a field trip “Apply" what they have learned and see it in action. Get them excited about the skills they have acquired!
Come up with a creative way to engage students intellectually and physically.
Perhaps a big role play or some kind of authentic practice that can be fun and deeply absorbing.
Pull in creative energies through arts and performance aspects of the activity. (Gets another part of the brain working.)
Ask the students what they want me to learn!!!!
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Debriefing the mission…
Was this a “breadth” or “depth” exercise? Blood pumping exercise Spin on the classic “think/pair/share” Time-friendly - Can be done in one class
or over multiple classes Elements of gaming, competition, and
chance
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One final challenge…
Watch this Video:https://vimeo.com/dtcc/review/136306539/21cf30423c
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A culture of Innovation…
President Brainard’s RemarksCulture of Innovation Effective and OrganizedPlease look for a MyDTCC message with a link to this web page over the next few weeks.
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One final question….
Any ideas why we used the squirrel?
HOMEWORK is to Google: “TED TALK Memory Foer”
Joshua Foer – author of the book “Moonwalking with Einstein”
Check me out! I’m SCIEN-TERRIFIC!
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IIC Wrap up• https://vimeo.com/dtcc/review/136236176/d8afec1cb6 • Homework & Takeaways