Elevating Student Engagement With Less Technology

Elevating Student Engagement

Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

Kyle Cook kdcook@tntech.edu Cheryl Tays ctays@tntech.edu

About Genially

A single tool to create all kinds of didactic resources, presentations, games, interactive images, maps, illustrated processes, CVs, etc. Ideal for all levels of education and e-learning.

Elevating Student Engagement With Less Technology

Session 3

3rd Pillar of Student Engagement: Affective Engagement Engaging Students:With Less Technology Extreme Makeover: Syllabus Edition

Affective Engagement

Summative and enduring levels of emotion Students identify purpose and meaning behind tasks Emotions are closely linked to learning

Tell More Stories

Makes lessons memoriable Gives greater context to material Students are interested in stories (social media)

Flipped Classroom Model

Brightspace Flipped Classroom

A Single Sticky Note

Trivia/Review Games

Encourage a Variety of Participation

Embrace Competition, not Comparison

Creative incentives for personal milestones Fosters enthusiasm and motivatation Awards, certificates, release conditions.

Create non-grade type competition with each lesson Positive impact on self-esteem of lesser-performing student

Learner Centered Creates First Impressions Provides Roadmap to Success

The Syllabus

Devise specific learning outcomes Example

Describe expected behavior Example

Describe the class format Example

Infographics Templates

Microsoft Templates

From the Provost

Elevating Student Engagement

Tell More Stories

Create an Awesome, Engaging Syllabus

Affective Engagement

Foster Competitiveness and Participation

Questions?

Resources

What is Flipped Learning?

Brightspace Helps Flip Classrooms

Name Generator

Random Name Picker

Keep The Score Leaderboard

Padlet Collaboration Tool

Ideas for Using Padlet in Higher Ed

How to Use Groups Tool in D2L