drilling for diamonds call conference 2012
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How do we make uninteresting, boring, or technical material interesting for our students?TRANSCRIPT
Making Boring Relevant Beth Agnew 2012
Overview
We don’t always get to teach the fun stuff
Creative engagement: Connecting with Relevance Meeting their Needs Reinforcing with Stories
Compelling Context In the end, it has to mean something
Bore-ing!
Carbon hardened under pressure millions of years ago
Brought to the surface via kimberlite pipes
Indicator minerals Ice advance studies – progress of glaciers Geophysical
analysis
Canada’s North
National Geographic Photo
Kimberlite and Indicators
Technology Helps
Huh?
The densification of these deposits containing non- to poorly vesicular equant pyroclasts will likely involve only moderate volumetric strain, hence classical textures such as fiamme or a strong fabric will not be present. At lower emplacement temperatures, magma flux and/or high cooling rates, the pyroclasts will simply crystallise and be unable to form a reconstituted deposit.
Relevance
Meeting their Needs
What are some needs students have that are consistent with learning about a potentially uninteresting or (to them) irrelevant topic?Grades Approval
PrestigeIncome
Qualification Foundation for other learning
Self-satisfaction
Personal interest
Reinforcing with Stories
Acres of Diamonds – Russell H. Conwell
Magic Pebbles -- John Wayne Schlatter
In the Box – Eckhart Tolle
Compelling Context
WHY? Wii FM The Rock – Dr. Robert Schuller Sr.
It all comes down to Meaning