From Event to Action: Accelerate Your Decision Making with Real-Time Automation
Fun
1. What’s fun got to do with it?
Joanna C. Dunlap
Center for Faculty Development
University of Colorado Denver
Joni.Dunlap@ucdenver.edu
Superhero powers: work
avoidance, mass email deleting,
stirring two bowls of hot soup at
the same time, knowledge of every
pop song from the 1970s, squirrel-
chatter translation, and x-ray
vision. My favorite color is purple.
2. What’s fun got to do with it?
How shall we treat subject matter…
so that it will rank as material of
reflective inquiry, not as ready-made
intellectual pablum to be accepted
and swallowed just as if it were
something bought at a shop.
~ Dewey (1933), How We Think, pg. 257
5. Professional answer…
People don’t pay attention to boring things.
Emotional arousal helps the brain learn.
Audiences check out after 10 minutes, but you
can keep grabbing them back by telling
narratives or creating events rich in emotion.
~ Medina (2008), Brain Rules, pg. 94
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8. Fun = phluff???
Orientation
Immediacy
Lecture
Malleability
Class discussions
Compellingness
Representation of
Resonance
understanding
Assessment Coherence
9. Fun = phluff???
Orientation
Immediacy
Lecture
Malleability
Class discussions
Compellingness
Representation Resonance
of
understanding Coherence
Assessment
25. Music video
Pecha kucha/Ignite
CD cover w/liner notes
Comic book
Movie poster
Digital story
Radio program
Game
Interpretive dance!
Via
http://www.vcasmo.com/video/SuzieRose/8202
http://csuth.org/ignite
http://tinyurl.com/2brz5gp
http://tinyurl.com/2fbkgy7
27. Final thoughts…
I ain’t making this stuff up…
I loved all of your “fun” activities. At
first I thought I would hate them,
that they’d be a big waste of time.
But I get it now, and see how they
not only helped me get to know you
and the others in the class, but
actually helped me learn too!!!
Thanks for a great class!
Hinweis der Redaktion
Example of orientation story for a workshop on “front-end analysis”
What superhero powers does an educator need to be effective? What superhero powers does an individual with HIV need to effectively manage her/his healthcare?
What issues are the community addressing? What questions are people in the community asking about HIV?
Caption the photo to address an aspect of our healthcare system.
Another example…
Telling a loved one that your HIV status is positive.