How to effectively use Collaborative Assignments in online and F2F courses to develop student critical thinking
EVENT RECORDING:
POWERPOINT DOCUMENT
Presenter: Eric Neumann
Audience: Faculty
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Learning Goals
- How to use EdPuzzle to free up class time for group activities
- What teaching practices are necessary to make this happen
- How to adapt these assignments for online use
Seminar Description
Many of us have had to create and rely on prerecorded video lectures for our asynchronous online students. Is there a place for using these lectures for synchronous online or even face-to-face sections? You betcha! In this seminar, we will briefly show how to maximize the effectiveness of these prerecorded videos by assigning them through EdPuzzle, then show how to effectively use all of the class time that has now been freed up by outsourcing the lecture component of class. The great advantage of synchronous learning is the opportunity for students to interact and collaborate in real time. This collaboration can be structured in a way to foster critical thinking by using low-stakes group activities. Drawing from the work of Peter Liljedahl, a Spring 2021 FNMT departmental book discussion seminar, and my own three semesters of structuring FNMT 019 in this manner, we will see how this format can improve student learning and thinking in all courses.