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Lecture Is Dead! Long Live Lecture! How and why to make class time more exciting and rewarding for your students. Rob Eby Blinn College Bryan, TX Campus

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Lecture is Booooring! So add commercial breaks ! First 10 vs. last 40 recall is laughable.

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If All You Do Is Lecture 15% 35%

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Ten and Two, Hike! 10 minute lecture 2 minutes to chew on it Similar to commercial breaks BUT you engage the students Think of a TV program

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What type of commercials? Minute papers Clickers poll anywhere and such Turn to classmate Example in book What is wrong here? Group quizzes

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end of or after class ideas Minute papers What do you think was the goal today? Clearest or muddiest point? Write your own question Exit quizzes Solve and Classmates Grade

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Make Them Read! Readings or videos out of class GUIDE THE READING! Follow up with quizzes Help students learn how to learn

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Public Speaking 101 1. Multiply by three 2. Subtract five. 1. UNDO Multiply by three 2. UNDO Subtract five.

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Pictures! Not just any picturesGood pictures Why is the sum of the first n odd numbers always a square?

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Pictorial Superiority Effect Our brains are hard wired for pictures Things written in text are not considered a picture

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72 Hours after exposure Recall from hearing only Recall from hearing and picture

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Pictorial Superiority Effect

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Brain Rules The brain seems to rely partly on past experience in deciding how to learn new things Make sure they understand what is new each time Our senses evolved to work together We learn best if we stimulate several senses at once.

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Patterns and Connections We are better at seeing patterns and abstracting the meaning of an event than we are at recording detail. Emotional arousal helps the brain learn. So make it emotional.

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Memory and Brain Rules Most memories disappear within minutes How do we make sure it gets into long-term memory? Incorporate new information gradually Repeat it in timed intervals

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Brain Rules Babies are the model of how we learn observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion

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Darn Kids these days! This is not just about kids these days this research is decades old Brains more wired for linear bursts than deep thinking (always on etc.)

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Most Desired Skills - Forbes No. 1 Critical Thinking No. 2 Complex Problem Solving No. 3 Judgment and Decision-Making No. 4 Active Listening No. 5 Computers and Electronics No. 6 Mathematics Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics and their application.

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Find out more! http://tinyurl.com/k3sbgh5 @RobEbymathdude jeby @ blinn.edu Blinn College Bryan Campus (next door to Texas A&M)