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Flipping the classroom and never looking back, at Universidad del Desarrollo Campus Ernesto Silva Ballafuy (Santiago, Chile), Friday, January 15, 2016:
talk_2593.pdf
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly
Flat space, deep learning, at Engineering Faculty, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Friday, January 15, 2016:
talk_2595.pdf
The teaching of physics to engineering students has remained stagnant for close to a century. In this novel team-based, project-based approach, we break the mold by giving students ownership of their learning. This new course has no standard lectures or exams, yet students’ conceptual gains are significantly greater than those obtained in traditional courses. The course blends six best practices to deliver a learning experience that helps students develop important skills, including communication, estimation, problem solving, and team skills, in addition to a solid conceptual understanding... Read more about Flat space, deep learning
ConcepTest design workshop, at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Thursday, January 14, 2016
In this workshop we will analyze the components of effective ConcepTest implementation and design. Participants will begin to design their own ConcepTests. At the end the workshop we will pilot a selected set of the newly designed ConcepTests with the participants.
Peer Instruction and ConcepTest design workshop, at UC Academic Staff Workshop, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Thursday, January 14, 2016:
talk_2592.pdf
In this workshop we will analyze the components of effective ConcepTest implementation and design. Participants will begin to design their own ConcepTests. At the end the workshop we will pilot a selected set of the newly designed ConcepTests with the participants.
Why you can pass tests and sill fail in the real world, at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Thursday, January 14, 2016:
talk_2590.pdf
Why is it that stellar students sometimes fail in the workplace while dropouts succeed? One reason is that most, if not all, of our current assessment practices are inauthentic. Just as the lecture focuses on the delivery of information to students, so does assessment often focus on having students regurgitate that same information back to the instructor. Consequently, assessment fails to focus on the skills that are relevant in life in the 21st century. Assessment has been called the "hidden curriculum" as it is an important driver of students' study habits. Unless we rethink our approach to... Read more about Why you can pass tests and sill fail in the real world
Peer Instruction, at School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Wednesday, January 13, 2016:
talk_2597.pdf
The basic goals of Peer Instruction are to encourage and make use of student interaction during lectures, while focusing students' attention on underlying concepts and techniques. The method has been assessed in many studies using standardized, diagnostic tests and shown to be considerably more effective than the conventional lecture approach to teaching. Peer Instruction is now used in a wide range of science and math courses at the college and secondary level. In this 2-3 hour long workshop, participants will learn about Peer Instruction, serve as the "class" in which Peer Instruction is... Read more about Peer Instruction
Educating the Innovators of the 21st Century, at Education Summit 2016, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Wednesday, January 13, 2016:
talk_2589.pdf
Can we teach innovation? Innovation requires whole-brain thinking — right-brain thinking for creativity and imagination, and left-brain thinking for planning and execution. Our current approach to education in science and technology, focuses on the transfer of information, developing mostly right-brain thinking by stressing copying and reproducing existing ideas rather than generating new ones. I will show how shifting the focus in lectures from delivering information to team work and creative thinking greatly improves the learning that takes place in the classroom and promotes independent... Read more about Educating the Innovators of the 21st Century
Confessions of a converted lecturer, at School of Medicine Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Wednesday, January 13, 2016:
talk_2588.pdf
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly
Getting every student ready for every class, at Education Summit 2016, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Wednesday, January 13, 2016:
talk_2598.pdf
Over the past decades there has been a concerted push away from passive lecturing to active engagement in the classroom. A successful implementation of the so-called flipped classroom requires students to come to class prepared, either by reading the textbook or watching a pre-recorded video. A variety approaches have been devised to get students to take responsibility for this information transfer, but none manage to get all students to participate, compromising the in-class activities. I will present a new approach to get every student to prepare for every class using a new social learning... Read more about Getting every student ready for every class
The Tyranny of the Lecture, at Business School, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Tuesday, January 12, 2016:
talk_2596.pdf
Most -- if not all -- of the important skills in our life are acquired outside the traditional classroom setting. Yet we continue to teach using lectures where students passively take down information. Instead, we should really focus on the assimilation of that information and shift the focus from teaching to helping students learn. Over the past 20 years, instructors world-wide have begun to adopt Peer Instruction to get students to think in class. With the advent of new technology the process can be significantly improved. A new data-analytics driven audience response system does away with... Read more about The Tyranny of the Lecture

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