SOLENT ACTIVE LEARNING NETWORK MEET UP
3-5pm Wednesday, 11th March, SMX24
I’m (not) an academic: get me out of here!
A workshop promoting high-quality academic reading through active learning.
Yes, you are an academic: you just don’t know it yet.
The problem is that students aren’t reading (research tells us that 27 per cent of expectations is a high estimate) and they’re afraid 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 offer an active learning approach to getting students reading high-quality academic sources, understanding their structure, and helping them with comprehension, interpretation, paraphrasing, and synthesis.
The session doesn’t require anything other than highlighters, a white board and copies of a relevant published article.
The workshop employs an active learning approach to demonstrate a method for the collective reading, interpretation and synthesis of a complex academic work.
The approach is highly flexible and can be adapted to a range of other contexts including books, book chapters, etc. In this instance the workshop focuses on getting students to engage with, and make use of, a peer-reviewed journal article.
The workshop uses models reading as a practice – this is how students will learn to write academically, critically, in depth, and from an informed viewpoint.
It significantly contributes to conquering the fears students have of engaging with what they think of as material too complex for them to comprehend.
But, through this group-based, active learning, approach students discover that they can understand, and apply, that which they thought they couldn’t.
Workshop facilitators Paul Stevens & Roy Hanney.
For more information contact: [log in to unmask] 07894 899 044
Booking: https://solent_active_learning_network_meetup.eventbrite.com
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