Tuesday, June 13, 2023

"How Do You Know?"

We're 'wired' to believe what we hear or see. "Trust but verify." Perhaps the epitome of failure occurred during the space shuttle Challenger flight. A fuel leak around 'low thermal tolerance' "O-Rings" caused a fiery explosion. Engineering 'knew' yet nobody knew enough to reschedule the launch. 

The rhetorical question becomes, "how do you know?" By extension, coaches ask:

1) What's the best way to teach? 

2) What's the best way to learn? 

3) Think again that no one way may be best for everyone.

Considerations:

  • Visual learning, watch video or demonstrations
  • Attend a lecture 
  • Participate in active learning (e.g. laboratory or project)
  • Prepare and deliver a lecture
In Think Again, Adam Grant shares that students' grades rose 'half a grade' with active learning. Twenty percent of grades in his class came from student projects, lessons, or videos. One group of students did a brief "TED Talk" entitled "The Problem with TED Talks." 

How good is your teaching? Penn Professors learned feedback from student versions of Mean Tweets.
 

Have a goal not of "best practices" but better practices. 

Lagniappe. Be intentional in warmup. 

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