Micro teach

engaging learners in research methods through game-based learning

Digital Tool: Genially

Dr Leanne Rowlands SFHE PGCert Digital Education, Module 2 - Micro Teach

aims

Student Learning Outcomes

• Develop understanding of RM and analysis
• Applying knowlege to real world problems
• Evalutating information to create an asynchronous digital artefact

Your Learning Outcomes

• Gain an understanding of benefits of game-based learning for 'dry' RM topics
• Develop critical understanding of applictions and functions of Genially beyond facilitating comprehension

Digital capabilities

Digital creation is about digital production of content e.g. writing, imaging, audio, interfaces.... Digital problem-solving is your ability to solve problems, make decisions and answer questions e.g. use digital evidence to solve problems, share evidence using digital methods ; digital research methods and tools

Digital learning is the ability to turn digital opportunities into personal learning gains e.g. participate in digital learning opportunities and use resources, use digital tools to organise, plan, reflect

30 second shout out what words come to mind when you think about students' experience of learning RM?

Game-based learning

Borrowing of game- principles and applying them to learning to engage users (Trybus, 2015)

You can drag the light to search through the darkness

Opportunity for active learning, play, promoting engagement. 'Gamers' can become producers not just consumers of the information (Pho & Dinscore, 2015)

Not games for play - but games for learning activities that can incramentally introduce concepts and guide learner towards a goal

- https://app.genial.ly

- https://app.genial.ly

• Interactive visual communication tool​ ​ Free version (+ subscription to unlock fncts)​ ​

• Tool used in teaching & learning to create interactive learning materials that are accessible via a link

• Accessible at any time – no need to be facilitated (e.g. menti, PollEv)​

• Wide range of templates available

- https://app.genial.ly

Templates for

• Quizzes
• True or False
• Matching tasks
• Clue & Solve Game
• Escape Room Games

- https://app.genial.ly

Let's play!

Quiz

Research Design

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A reasercher is interested in the impact of positive emotion on attention. They randomly allocate participants to two groups (positive vs neutral sitmuli) and measure reaction times on a dot-probe task. What type of design is this?

Experimental

Quasi-experimental

Correlational

Right answer

Right answer - you can also add immediate feedback here

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A researcher wants to study the effect of fear on attention. They collect participants with arachnaphobia (fear of spiders) and get them to do a dot probe task with real spiders crawling on them. Which best describes this study?

Sound ethics. low ecological validity. high internal validity

Questionable ethics. High ecological validity. Low internal validity

Questionable ethics. low ecological validity. low internal validity

Right answer

Right answer - you can also add immediate feedback here

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Research Methods Game

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Instructions

SUSPENS

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Token

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Genially - from 'Comprehension' to 'creation'

Higher order thinking

Churches, A. (2008). Bloom's taxonomy blooms digitally. Tech & Learning, 1, 1-6.

benefits and barriers

• Many functions and templates for interactivity & game-based learning

• Can be used for asynchronous as well as synchronous activity

• Especially effective for asynchronous activity. Other platforms e.g. PollEv might be better for synchronous quizzes, word clouds, polls (but not for games) because it allows students to complete tasks individually on phones and it syncs to the PollEV Platform that is screen-shared

• Synchronous games require some extra work, e.g. students into breakout rooms, 'game master'

• Can track data of 'right' and 'wrong' answers - identifying gaps in knowledge

• Free version does not allow for downlaodable PDFs

• Questionable accessibility (e.g. screen-readers?)

• Lisence issues mean we can't embed within Articulate Rise (if using free version)

• Currently can't be used for assessments because not TII compatible

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