2008 Woodie Awards
Professors get an education
Jordan Crook/RHA Reporter
Issue date: 11/6/07 Section: News
Faculty members were not the only people in attendance Monday morning - many graduate students also attended the event.
Biology major Stephen Clark came to the event to fulfill a graduate requirement. He said the topics discussed also interested him.
Clark said he thought students learned more when they were offered more than just lectures in courses.
"I know I do when I'm in class," he said.
That reaction is shared by many students, Ghent said, and is one of the main reasons she uses movie clips from different pop culture sources, ranging from television shows like "I Love Lucy" to movies such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
She said this generation of students is more active than those who came before them and need interactivity to break up the monotony of 70-minute lectures.
"This generation is sometimes called 'Generation Y,'" Ghent said. "I call them 'Generation Wired.'"
Ghent said she has been using these techniques for several semesters and has received positive feedback from students.
One memorable activity Ghent shared with the audience was bringing a box of doughnuts to class and having a student eat them until he or she could not eat more. She said she did this to demonstrate the law of diminishing returns to students.
While Ghent focused on why teachers need to include more popular culture and interactivity in their classrooms, Padmaraju used her time to tell the audience about the resources they have available to them and how to use them.
She told the audience the need for video clips in their classroom stemmed from the students need to be involved technologically while learning.
"This is generation is a multimedia generation," Padmaraju said.
She gave the assembled faculty several sources of video clips to use in their classrooms and instructed them how to use the sources properly.
Due to the positive response to the program Monday, Pearson said she hopes to have Ghent and Padmaraju speak about these topics again next semester.
Pearson said she will try to provide them with more time to speak the next semester to provide more detailed discussions.
Biology major Stephen Clark came to the event to fulfill a graduate requirement. He said the topics discussed also interested him.
Clark said he thought students learned more when they were offered more than just lectures in courses.
"I know I do when I'm in class," he said.
That reaction is shared by many students, Ghent said, and is one of the main reasons she uses movie clips from different pop culture sources, ranging from television shows like "I Love Lucy" to movies such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
She said this generation of students is more active than those who came before them and need interactivity to break up the monotony of 70-minute lectures.
"This generation is sometimes called 'Generation Y,'" Ghent said. "I call them 'Generation Wired.'"
Ghent said she has been using these techniques for several semesters and has received positive feedback from students.
One memorable activity Ghent shared with the audience was bringing a box of doughnuts to class and having a student eat them until he or she could not eat more. She said she did this to demonstrate the law of diminishing returns to students.
While Ghent focused on why teachers need to include more popular culture and interactivity in their classrooms, Padmaraju used her time to tell the audience about the resources they have available to them and how to use them.
She told the audience the need for video clips in their classroom stemmed from the students need to be involved technologically while learning.
"This is generation is a multimedia generation," Padmaraju said.
She gave the assembled faculty several sources of video clips to use in their classrooms and instructed them how to use the sources properly.
Due to the positive response to the program Monday, Pearson said she hopes to have Ghent and Padmaraju speak about these topics again next semester.
Pearson said she will try to provide them with more time to speak the next semester to provide more detailed discussions.
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