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Storytelling as an Active Learning Tool to Engage Students in a Genetics Classroom

Karobi Moitra

INTRODUCTION

"Stories can be appealing educational tools because they engage students, are believable and entertaining, and enable students to easily recall facts from the story (4). In order to engage students in undergraduate genetics classrooms, an Introductory Genetics course based around storytelling was created. There were eleven stories included in the course, interspersed with a few traditional lectures. The stories used in the classroom (see http://www.slideshare.net/karobi/story-telling-in-the-classroom-lilly-conference-presentation-2014-1hr-session-copy-3 for syllabus) were broadly based on two books, Tears of the Cheetah by Stephen J. O’Brien (3), and The Journey of Man by Spencer Wells (5). Both are non-fictional accounts of important discoveries in genetics. The stories were incorporated into PowerPoint presentations with questions, videos, and links embedded within them in order to provide visual impact to help create interest in the classroom. "

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Storytelling and our brain

by Leo Widrich

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