Storytelling (methodology)

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Extract: 

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 (ncbi)

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EXTRA 

Storytelling and our brain

by Leo Widrich

Storytelling (buffer)

Tim Brown and "Design Thinking"

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Thanks to Dr. Arianna B. Giorgi I became interested in Design Thinking and Tim Brown

Tim Brown on Design Thinking (TED com)

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Extracto (en castellano)

La metodología Design Thinking y sus orígenes

"Design Thinking es el anglicismo con el que se conoce a una herramienta que utilizan las empresas para fomentar la innovación de manera exitosa. Su aplicación está permitiendo que numerosas corporaciones mejoren sus resultados, amplíen su cartera de clientes y consoliden su marca. 

El Design Thinking apuesta por dejar de lado las soluciones conocidas para hacer frente a los problemas o retos con nuevos enfoques y fórmulas que no habíamos contemplado. La búsqueda de ese punto de vista divergente hace que el proceso sea más abierto, colaborativo y participativo."

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Leer más: 

¿Qué es "design thinking"? (universia.es)

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IDEO com (Tim Brown)

8 pasos para grabar asistencia a vid.con de google meet

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8 pasos para grabar la asistencia de participantes a una vid.con 

de google.meet.

Resulta cómodo guardar la dirección de google.meet de la videoconferencia o conversación en la que quiera participar. Este enlace suele consistir en un código de una decena de letras separadas por guiones. 

1.En primer lugar debe acceder al correo gmail del centro o empresa. Al mismo tiempo acceda por otra ventana al Aula Virtual y pinche con el cursor o ratón en el enlace previamente fijado de la conversación: lección x del Aula Virtual. Si no desea que su imagen se vea, desactive la webcam del portátil o tableta, aunque lo correcto es que se deje ver para dar fe de su presencia. 

2.Una vez dentro del enlace, leerá un mensaje en la pantalla que dice UNIRME AHORA. Pinche sobre ese mensaje. 

3.En el borde inferior de la pantalla, a la derecha verá una opción MOSTRAR mi pantalla. Pulse ahí y elija qué parte de la pantalla de su portátil quiere mostrar. 

4.Digamos que decide compartir toda la pantalla. Se abrirá otra ventana en el centro de su pantalla con dos opciones: botón CANCELAR y botón COMPARTIR. Pinche en COMPARTIR. El sistema le va a pedir que seleccione una parte. Seleccione TODA LA PANTALLA, por ejemplo. Recibirá un aviso de que está mostrando toda la pantalla. 

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#PDF

https://tinyurl.com/y9vrp25q

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The best way to learn Latin

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Extract: 

"2016 saw the publication of two important and exciting books about how to learn Latin. The first, in March, was Eleanor Dickey’s Learning Latin the Ancient Way: Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World(Cambridge University Press), a study of ancient materials used to teach Latin to Greek speakers in the Roman empire. It was followed in October by Reginald Foster’s Ossa Latinitatis Sola/The Mere Bones of Latin (Catholic University of America Press), a Latin textbook using the legendary Vatican Latinist’s teaching methods.

The following is a conversation between Dickey (ED) and Daniel Gallagher (DG), Foster’s longtime student and successor in the Office of Latin Letters at the Vatican. The conversation is led by Michael Fontaine (MF), Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University." (...)

https://eidolon.pub/what-is-the-best-way-to-learn-latin-5eb32ac4fadd

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Surprise tests in schools (via The Telegraph, INDIA)

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 A piece of news on surprise tests in schools of Calcutta, INDIA. 

The Telegraph

Calcutta, INDIA

Wednesday , January 18 , 2012

Surprise test in schools

- Revised exam model for Madhyamik board

A STAFF REPORTER

Madhyamik schools are about to embrace an examination model introduced, and later rejected, by ICSE and CBSE schools several years ago.

The school education department on Tuesday decided to start surprise class tests at the primary, secondary and Higher Secondary levels from the 2013 academic year.

The move is aimed at overhauling an archaic examination system and will apply to all schools, including private ones, affiliated to the state board.

Bikram Sen, principal secretary, school education, said unit tests in the present evaluation system would make way for surprise assessment — both written and oral.

“The surprise tests will more effectively assess how well students have grasped the lessons,” Sen said. It is yet to be decided if half-yearly and annual exams will be continued.

Surprise tests were first introduced in English-medium schools affiliated to the ICSE board and the CBSE in the mid-90s to improve attendance and critically assess students. Mid-term and end-term exams were also conducted then.

The model was scrapped a few years ago, making way for Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), a principal of a city school said.

Rita Chatterjee, the principal of Apeejay schools, welcomed the new model but sounded caution. “The benefit (of surprise tests) is that they allow assessment of a child’s everyday learning. But I would like to use the word ‘check’, not test, because tests instil fear in the child’s mind. The flip side is that they may create fear of exams in some students.”

Principal secretary Sen said surprise tests and the plan to introduce other innovative assessment tools were based on the recommendations of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) of 2005 and 2009. The human resource development ministry had drawn up the framework to overhaul the examination system in schools across the country.

“We think the existing evaluation system, which will continue this year, encourages students to resort to cramming to score high. This does not enhance their aptitude, something the NCF strongly advocates,” Sen said. He said the government would also overhaul the syllabus to suit the new model. “Teachers, too, would have to be trained.”

The new system will be finalised in consultation with the West Bengal Syllabus Restructure Committee.

Pedagogy note: nine points in a foreign language

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1/notebook

2/book

3/Parallel Papers

4/Aula Virtual (@moodle)

5/tests (short ones, easy to do) 

6/words & skeletons of verbs

7/short messages (SMS)

8/oral focus (activity, board, pronunciation)

9/audios