Audio/Visual Sense-Making
Objective exercises are another tool for sense-making. How have you used them to help learners figure out new information?
Filling the Gap with New Information
Information gap is another tool for sense-making. How have you used it to help learners figure out new information?
Making Sense with Objective Exercises
Objective exercises are another tool for sense-making. How have you used them to help learners figure out new information?
Games for Sense-Making
Finally, back on the topic of sense-making activities: How have you used games to help students figure out new information?
Using Speaking to Teach: Types of Sense-Making Activities
What are some different categories and types of sense-making activities? We share some ideas here. Then, we’d love to hear your ideas!
Sense-Making Activities
Today we start a series of posts that look at sense-making activities for the presentation phase of a lesson. Read on to see what we mean, and then participate–please–
by completing the Try It Out section at the end the post.
Lost in Learning
How could our teaching approach affect learner motivation? Melissa talks about getting students lost in learning.
Everyday Pictures, New Insights
How do the Master Teacher’s parables inspire you toward better teaching? Bradley Baurain answers with a look at patches and wineskins.
Two heads are (often) better than one
Two heads aren’t always better than one, but often they are, and sometimes, three or four are even better. Carolyn Stent explains.
It’s all in the (right kind of) details
Why do activities sometimes fail? Perhaps it’s a lack of attention to details, or as Bridget Watson explains, the right kind of details.
Silence is golden
Last week we talked about letting go. One thing we may need to release is our right to talk. In fact, as Patrick Seifer explains, when using activities to teach, we may find that for teachers silence is golden.
Letting go is hard to do
When using activities to teach, we have to be willing to let go. Aliel Cunningham gets us thinking about taking our students on a journey outside our comfort zone and theirs.
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