Week6: Engaging Students Is ALL about Interaction

Food for Thought: Untying their brains and maximizing their thinking will unleash their personae

This week we read and talked about engaging students and viewed numerous different interactive techniques that make students active even in large classes. The goal is to create a "learning laboratory," to make an active workshop for discovery out of each course. We should put all our efforts into this in order to thus change this context of dropouts and absenteeism because, as Nelson Mandela said it clear enough: "Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world."

Concerning the importance of engaging students, I guess that there is no need to stress the vital and infinitely positive aspects of active learning. I will thus focus on different ways and techniques that I have learnt about this week in order to achieve that class atmosphere.