Interactive Lecture

The CDEARA Model

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How to assess learning?

How to do it?

Why do it?

What is it?

INTERACTIVE LECTURE

The ‘other activities’ when used in a lecture context, are called Interactive Lecture Tools (ILTs).

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Interactive Lecture: The CDEARA Model

A lecture that is interspersed with other activities besides listening and note-taking, that enable students to actively participate during the lecture involving student-teacher, student-student, student-material and student-technology interactions.

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Continous assessment

Many ILTs can serve as assessment tasks in addition to them being part of the learning activities. Thus, learning activities and assessment are seamlessly intertwined so that students receive immediate feedback during the learning process.

Foster thinking

The use of questioning in various formats including the use of graphic organisers and thinking templates make for a purposeful, systematic and thought-provoking process of fostering thinking.

Deepen understanding

The use of ILTs make students’ learning experiences more concrete compared to the use of mainly verbal and visual symbols as in the standard lecture. By using the ILT alternately with lecturing, we enrich students’ learning experiences and thus lead them to greater learning.

Increase students' engagement

The monotony of a standard lecture is broken down by chunking the lecture content into smaller units and alternately embedding ILTs throughout the lecture. Thus, students’ learning experiences are varied and therefore attract students’ attention and keep them actively engaged throughout the lecture.

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Why do it?

MULTI[PLE INTELLIGENCES

Use of various ILTs allow students to learn through multiple senses thus catering for students different learning styles

INFORMATION PROCESSING THEORY

Chunking the lecture content into smaller units helps with storing more information in the working memory

DALE'S CONE OF EXPERIENCES, 1969

Make learning experience more concrete and enriching to increase understanding

CONSTRUCTIVISM

Ascertain prior knowledge and facilitate the meaning making process

Learning theories that underpin Interactive Lecture: The CDEARA Model

UNDERPINNINGS

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ENGAGEAllow students to interact through multiple senses via the use of ILTs thus enabling them to process content deeply and meaningfully and develop thinking skills.

DELIVERPresent content in small chunks. 10 minutes, tops.

CONNECTAttract attention, elicit ideas and relate students' everyday experience to the content.

APPLYProvide enrichment tasks to facilitate transfer of learning. Focus on the 'big idea' of the lesson and provide new and challenging contexts preferably related to the real world

REFLECTProvide closure by having students reflect on what and how they learn. Connect to the next lesson

ASSESSAssess students' learning throughout the learning process to ensure the achievement of the learning outcomes

Interactive Lecture: The CDEARA Model

The CDEARA Model

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How to do it?

• The CDEARA Interactive Lecture Model consists of six components. Although some parts of the model appear to be sequential (for example, the components Connect, Deliver, Apply and Reflect are sequential), others such as Engage and Assess are components of the interactive lecture that are executed throughout the lecture.
• The lesson plan template is as attached.

Interactive Lecture: The CDEARA Model

ILTs

Examples of Interactive Lecture Tools

Ask for ideas around the class, one by one.

Brainstorming

Present a question. Let student think individually first, then ask them to discuss in pairs/nearest neighbour, and finally, share their responses to the whole class.

Think-Pair-Share

Know What Learned

KWL Chart

Punctuate lectures with verbal questioning

Questions

ILTs

examples of interactive lecture tools

Use any web 2.0 tools such as mentimeter, kahoot, padlet, google form, etc. to elicit responses about anything related to the topic or students' learning experiences.

survey

Direct students' attention on some aspects of the video before playing the video.

video clips

Ask a question that requires students to list down their answer.

focused listing

Ask a question and give students two minutes to jot down their answer.

two-minute paper

ILTs

examples of interactive lecture tools

Simulations that are suitable for use during lecture are digital simulations such as Phet simulations (for teaching Science and Mathematics) and BrainPOP.

simulations

PEOE technique is an interactive demonstration where students are asked to predict a particular event, explain their prediction, then observe and finally explain. The template below can be used for doing PEOE.

predict-explain-observe-explain

Can be used as a reflection template. Reflection can be on the content learned, the thinking (metacognition), or on the affective component of the learning experience.

plus-minus-interesting

Do live demonstration.

demonstration

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