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Holly Parker

NYU > Faculty Resource Network > Publications > Spirituality and Higher Education > Res... - 0 views

  • This might include a changing paradigm in the way that infrastructure is used on campus or how students connect and collaborate. Rethinking the role of academic support centers is also a must in order to: Provide information to faculty on characteristics of students and learning strategies Advise on effective study skills at the classroom level Help students define their problems Encourage reflection on faculty’s paradigms and corresponding behaviors about their students Develop online workshops and information about effective study strategies Evaluate location and physical infrastructure Support smart objects and intelligent contexts and processes Support processes: instruction and classroom assessment Reconfigure and redesign use of space for social groupings, collaboration, and identity
  • Implications for Faculty Faculty are likely to experience confusing classroom environments, with students that seem less interested in participating, and who require a more individualized approach to the traditional topics. Such shifts will require a shift in instruction. The National Training Laboratories reports a shift in the average retention of different learning activities. Student’s retention average from lecture is only 5% and 10% from reading. On the other hand, retention average for discussion groups is 50%, 75% for practice by doing, and 90% when the student experiments in a teaching role. Given the millennials’ characteristics, faculty need to work on: a diversity of learning experiences in the classroom continuous research of what works for students to learn elimination of delays a customer service focus experiential, interactive and authentic learning staying connected expanding their opportunities on and off campus providing international internships emphasizing social services projects revising the curriculum taking into account the millennial learning styles and their differences Faculty can encourage students by developing interactive activities, using portable devices like PDA, iPod, mobile phones, and creating learning communities. Students will work better with mind maps, cases, games, simulations and role-play. A custom and individualized program of professional development will help faculty get up to speed.
Holly Parker

NYU > Faculty Resource Network > Publications > Spirituality and Higher Education > Res... - 0 views

  • Many of the presentations focused on pedagogy, student retention, learning styles and mentoring. All of these topics are important in education, but the role of the brain and how it acquires information was the main theme of this session.
  • The acquisition of knowledge requires the full capacity of brain functioning, and educators should have knowledge of the neural mechanisms associated with learning as well as the different styles of learning that impact success in the classroom.
  • Educators should be aware of different instructional approaches that can stimulate various sensory mechanisms to activate the brain centers that control movement and influence emotion.
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  • The neural circuitry connecting the hippocampus to the hypothalamus and the amygdala help to enhance memory when there is an emotional interest in the topic of discussion. Therefore, educators should realize that it makes sense to present information that is emotionally relevant to the student for the information to be properly stored for recall.
  • Educators can try exposing students to pleasant aromas during a lecture and then expose the students to the same aroma during testing. Since the student today has music as an integral part of their life, educators can play selected kinds of music during a lecture to engage the student. Along with music, movement can be integral to enhance learning. Therefore, create games with balls in which the students have to keep a beach ball in the air while they are seated. Take breaks during the lecture and have the students move around. Essentially, you want to engage students with multiple stimuli rather than boring Millennial Students with the standard lecture format.
Holly Parker

www.eduapps.org - 0 views

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    EduApps What is it? AccessApps USB StickEduApps is an initiative developed by the JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland North & East and expands on the already very successful AccessApps. EduApps extends the AccessApps philosophy of free portable software in your pocket to include bundles of applications specifically designed for teachers 'TeachApps' and learners 'LearnApps'. Currently we host over 90 open source and freeware software applications which can be entirely used from a USB stick on a Windows computer.
Albert Steno

Custom Flash Drives as Wedding Give-aways - 1 views

You might be surprised but yes we use Promotional USB Drives as our give-aways in our wedding last Saturday. My wife and I decided that we want to be different this time and since most of our guest...

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Charles Rathbone

The Decline of Play and the Rise of Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents | Ameri... - 1 views

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    feels like the return of attention drawn to things educators know - the functions of play have to be remembered, even or especially in this digital age
High Syn

Safe and Legal Pot - 3 views

You can say that I love to party and get high occasionally. But, then again getting addicted to the real thing is a big NO NO. Gladly a friend of mine introduced me to Kronic. It is a brand of herb...

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started by High Syn on 13 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Sonny Cher

Relive the Spicy Moments - 1 views

My sex life has been dull and boring lately. I do not feel the thrill and excitement as before. I was looking for ways to fix it before it is too late, then I found out about Librex legal drugs and...

Legal Drugs

started by Sonny Cher on 23 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
High Syn

The Best Thing Happened to Party People Like Me - 1 views

I really have my doubts when I first heard about herbal highs and legal weed. I said "there is no such thing" but everything changed when I tried Kronic original. True to its promise, it gives the ...

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