WEBINAR: Meeting the challenge of getting students reading!
Webinar, Wednesday 2nd Dec, 4:00pm-6:00pm (GMT)

A workshop evaluating strategies for the promotion of high-quality academic reading through active learning.

The workshop asks the question: How can we support active reading strategies in an online environment and what works?

The challenge is that students aren’t reading (research tells us that an expectation that 27 per cent of students are doing the set reading is a high estimate) and they’re reluctant to engage with some of the reading we recommend.

That’s a problem because we want our students to become good at writing; because critical thinking emerges through academic writing; but before writing comes reading.

So, this workshop aims to evaluate some of the strategies that staff on the Media Production programme at Solent university have employed in getting students reading high-quality academic sources, understanding their structure, and helping them with comprehension, interpretation, paraphrasing, and synthesis.

In particular, the workshop will look at how these strategies can be moved from face to face in a classroom to an online and remote learning scenario. It takes as it’s starting point a workshop delivered earlier in the year that modelled active reading as an in-class activity.

For further information on the workshop delivered in Spring 2020 read our blog post: I am not an academic: get me out of here!
https://creativemediapractice.com/index.php/2020/08/10/im-not-an-academic-get-me-out-of-here/

Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-the-challenge-of-getting-students-reading-tickets-129331852051
Book via the ALN Website: https://activelearningnetwork.com/active-learning-events/

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