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Learning activity

Pre-class preparation on a document

Enhance asynchronous engagement with pre-class interactive document discussion
Pedagogy
Flipped classroom
Learning outcome
Collaboration
Prep time
High (>30 min)
Activity type
Learning Activity
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Why this learning activity?

Learning activities targeting high-order skills like this one can help you activate students more effectively. This learning activity will help you with:
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Critical reading and annotation

Students will highlight and annotate key ideas.
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Collaborative discussion

Students will engage in dialogue with peers, articulating and responding to insights regarding the impact of walking on creativity.
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Reflective thinking

Students will articulate personal insights gained from the reading and interactions, emphasizing practical applications.
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Activity setup

Pre-class preparation on a document

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Activity steps

  1. Read instructions: Go through the instructions to understand the activity requirements. Note any guidelines or criteria.
  2. Read document and engage: Students will read the interactive document, highlighting and annotating key points about how walking influences mental clarity and creativity.
  3. Reflect on the material: Students will write a brief reflection summarizing what they've learned from the article

Activity goals

This activity helps facilitate a flipped classroom approach to your teaching. When student engage with material prior to class there are several benefits:
  1. Read instructions: Go through the instructions to understand the activity requirements. Note any guidelines or criteria.
  2. Read document and engage: Students will read the interactive document, highlighting and annotating key points about how walking influences mental clarity and creativity.
  3. Reflect on the material: Students will write a brief reflection summarizing what they've learned from the article

Learning Activities Used

Interactive Document

Student-Content engagement to stimulate student success

In this activity

This activity helps facilitate a flipped classroom approach to your teaching. When student engage with material prior to class there are several benefits:

  • Prior to class, areas of the topic where students may struggle are outlined allowing in class time to be spent on relevant areas.
  • Encourage students to learn from each other, ask each other questions and seek help from one another.
  • In class time can be spent applying material, and exploring its real-world relevance.
  • You can add a document, where you can thereafter add:
    • Inline multiple choice or open answer questions
    • Inline discussion prompts
    • Opt for students to be able to start discussion threads where they can interact and ask each other questions.
    • Opt for students to be able to ask multiple choice or open answer questions.
  • Anonymity:
    • Students won’t see other individual student answers to questions.
    • Opt in for anonymity on discussion threads.
  • Reflection
    • Encourage students to reflect on their main take aways.
  • Grading: This template is currently a formative assessment, you can opt for it to be a graded assignment if you want to encourage participation further.

Notable settings

Anonymity
Reflection
Grading

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