story telling in the classroom lilly conference presentation 2014 1hr session copy 3
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The Call of the Story:Innovative Approaches in STEM Classrooms
Karobi Moitra PhDCBL Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
Trinity Washington UniversityLilly Conference, Bethesda 30th May 2014
Learning is not a spectator sport!
Students need to get involved in their own learning
What are the instructional strategies that get students
involved?
BIOL 241- Introductory geneticsA Case Study in story telling
MULTIMEDIALEARNING
• PPT PRESENTTIONS• DESIGNING A
WEBSITE
PAPER CRITIQUE
WRITING• TERM PAPER
• CASE STUDIES• EXAMS
• QUIZZES
FUNGENETICS JEOPARDY
LECTURES
STORY-TELLING
FUNMOVIES
MULTIMEDIATEACHING• YOU TUBE
VIDEOS• DVD’S
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
USED IN BIOL241
PBLGROUP PROBLEM
SOLVINGCASE STUDIESDISCUSSION
MULTIMEDIALEARNING
• PPT PRESENTTIONS• DESIGNING A
WEBSITE
PAPER CRITIQUE
WRITING• TERM PAPER
• CASE STUDIES• EXAMS
• QUIZZES
FUNGENETICS JEOPARDY
LECTURES
STORY-TELLING
FUNMOVIES
MULTIMEDIATEACHING• YOU TUBE
VIDEOS• DVD’S
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
USED IN BIOL241
PBLGROUP PROBLEM
SOLVINGCASE STUDIESDISCUSSION
LECTURES
STORY-TELLING
Biology 241: Introductory Genetics Syllabus
successful Storytellers will tell you…
It’s not always about what you say:
It’s how you say it
Where do You start?
Information overload!
Look for your story
The story of us: the incredible journey of man
I read the entire book and condensed it into a 45 min lecture
Step 1: Build the framework for your story
Like this:
Step2: Add your Content
And you have the perfect storyline…….
Storytelling in the sciences 101:
Deconstructing the storytelling process
3 questions:
Why are we here?
Where are we going?
Where did we come from?
1.Have a strong Storyline- bring your audience in
The journey of the ‘y’ chromosome
2.Element of mystery- don’t give away the ending!
But how do we know That thisJourney started in africa?
?
3. Let students solve various parts of the mystery with clues (INTERACTIVE)
We know because we can trace certainDna markers
from human populations
Markers on dna
A marker on DNA is a landmark that tells you where you are in the genome
4. Add audio-visual content (you tube videos, DVD movies
5. Stress that people are as important as the science
Scientists are HUMAN, don’t be afraid of SCIENCE, specially not Genetics!
The Genographic project and Spencer Wells
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/
6. Discussion- encourage all students to take part
Introduce the concept of ‘Safe space’
7. Integrate biological techniques into the story- the boring stuff !
8. Make the take home message very clear.
What did you learn?
• People look different because of isolation and adaptations to different environments
• Underneath all of that we are virtually the same
we are all connected
We are the same
What percentage of DNA do you share With the person
sitting next to you?
we share 99.9% of Our Dna with every singleperson On this earth
9. Let the students apply their knowledge
- case study - paper- website (WIX) - video (Xtranormal), - Journal/map- Poster- Infographic- Concept map etc.
10. Have fun with it!
Think about how story-telling can be applied across disciplines