Interactive Experiences: Shaping the Future of Teaching

Teaching in Higher Ed

Andrew Cross and Alyshahn Kara-Virani share about creating interactive experiences and shaping the future of teaching on episode 535 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

A lot of play science comes down to being a safe space to learn from each other, to see how people respond to what you put out there in the world without it being this critical life or death situation.
-Andrew Cross

People disproportionately remember experiences based on both the peaks and the valleys, and then also the ending experience.
-Andrew Cross

Encourage students to freely explore the content on their own. Sometimes that’s content, sometimes it’s a physical space. Turn them loose to go off and find something that they find interesting, a little bit of free choice learning.
-Andrew Cross

Status quo is our enemy too often.
-Andrew Cross

Resources

• Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Dr. Stuart Brown
• The Play Conference by US Play Coalition
• The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip & Dan Heath
• Peak–end rule
• Episode 530 : Lessons from the Road: Share Your Teaching Stories with Dave Stachowiak
• Episode 527 : Beyond Dichotomous Thinking: Strategies to Enhance Teaching and Learning with Alexis Peirce Caudell
• The Museum Experience Revisited by John H Falk, Lynn D Dierking
• Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum: Movement, Embodiment, Emotion by Getty Museum
• The 5 “E”s:
  • Examination – Straightforward question and answer
  • Exploration – Encouraging students to freely explore the content on their own
  • Explanation – Asking students to take what they’ve learned and describe it in their own words, often applying it in a new context, a method of reflection that is core to effective experiential learning.
  • Extension – Using that knowledge to create something brand new, re-enacting or engaging with content in a creative way.
  • Externalization – Going outside your group and encouraging interaction with others, adding a social dynamic to the experiences.