Elevating Student Engagement With Less Technology

Elevating Student Engagement

Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

About Genially

A single tool to create all kinds of didactic resources, presentations, games, interactive images, maps, illustrated processes, CVs, etc.

3rd Pillar of Student Engagement:

Affective Engagement

With Less Technology

Syllabus Edition

Cognitive

Social

Elevating Student Engagement With Less Technology

Affective Engagement

Summative and enduring levels of emotion

Makes lessons memoriable

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A Single Sticky Note

A Single Sticky Note

• Hand out a single sticky note to students who contribute to the discussion (question, answer, or comment)
• Do not give more than one sticky note per student even if they speak up more than once.
• Encourages students to contribute in a way they are most comfortable.
• Students encourage each other to get a sticky note!
• Students can put name on sticky note and turn in to professor on the way out of class to earn points, etc.

Encourage a Variety of Participation

a “pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter” (The Flipped Learning Network, 2014).

Create non-grade type competition with each lesson

Creative incentives for personal milestones

Embrace Competition, not Comparison

Describe expected behavior

Describe the class format

Devise specific learning outcomes

The Syllabus

Create an Awesome, Engaging Syllabus

Foster Competitiveness and Participation

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Affective Engagement

Elevating Student Engagement

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