I have planned in-class demos of "classic" studies that shouldn't go wrong, go horribly wrong and then the students are REALLY confused about the underlying theoretical mechanisms! For example, I have about a 50% 'hit rate' with demos of serial position effects--this really confuses students and so now I tend to not do that one in the classroom. But my solution was through experience determining that I could not even salvage the demo with discussion of methodological issues.
But the gist of my idea here is demos that go counter to expectation and then how to salvage students' understanding of the underlying paradigm.... Annette Quoting Retta Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > TIPS Colleagues - > Another faculty member and I have been invited by the director of > our campus' teaching resources center to lead a roundtable discussion > entitled, "Murphy's Law 101: When Things Go Wrong in the Classroom." > The idea is that we will prime the pump by offering a couple of examples > of things going wrong, describe some ways of responding, and then invite > participants to share their experiences. Where possible, we hope to > facilitate discussion of ways to prevent problems as well as potential > solutions. As examples, we're planning to discuss dealing with either > the student or the instructor losing composure, responding to creative > ways of cheating, and the situation of planning a class discussion but > having no students willing to do any discussing. > We have a list of other examples of things going wrong, but it > occurs to me that some of you might be able to offer even better > examples, as well as great ideas for prevention and intervention. > Please share if you have experiences that qualify, and if you also can > offer solutions, that would be great, too. I am guessing that this > topic might be of interest to the whole list. > > Thanks - > Retta > > -- > Retta E. Poe, Ph.D. > Associate Dean for Academic Programs > College of Education and Behavioral Sciences > Professor of Psychology > Western Kentucky University > 1 Big Red Way > Bowling Green, Ky. 42101 > > (270) 745-4662 FAX: (270) 745-6474 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://edtech.cebs.wku.edu/~rpoe/ > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Department of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
