Ramsey Musallam : 3 rules to spark learning
I have seen quite a few Ted talks about all different ways that teachers inspire students or students inspiring teachers. But not many people give you actually advice for doing this. Then I saw Ramsey Musallam's 3 rules to spark learning. His subject is chemistry, very far away from photography, but he used it in a very clever way. He talks about growing students curiosity and how the quality of their questions is an important part of learning. Instead of giving your students a load of information to digest, show them something or do something to grow their curiosity. Do something that will spark the questions, then they will want to know the information.
I think this is an amazing way to teach. I tried to reverse a very common way of teaching Photoshop on Thursday. Usually in a Photoshop class the teacher will demonstrate the tools and give instructions on what they want the students to do, step by step. I hated being taught like this, it can be really boring and I would always switch off half way through. So I reversed it. I knew the students had basic Photoshop skills so I gave them a photograph with 4 main faults and asked them to correct it. It was great, the activity was received very well by the students. When they couldn't figure out how to do something, this made them ask the questions I wanted them to ask, so I could show them how to do it. The students said that I had trusted them and gave them independence, so they could really see what they knew and what they wanted to know.
I was definitely inspired by this video!
I have seen quite a few Ted talks about all different ways that teachers inspire students or students inspiring teachers. But not many people give you actually advice for doing this. Then I saw Ramsey Musallam's 3 rules to spark learning. His subject is chemistry, very far away from photography, but he used it in a very clever way. He talks about growing students curiosity and how the quality of their questions is an important part of learning. Instead of giving your students a load of information to digest, show them something or do something to grow their curiosity. Do something that will spark the questions, then they will want to know the information.
I think this is an amazing way to teach. I tried to reverse a very common way of teaching Photoshop on Thursday. Usually in a Photoshop class the teacher will demonstrate the tools and give instructions on what they want the students to do, step by step. I hated being taught like this, it can be really boring and I would always switch off half way through. So I reversed it. I knew the students had basic Photoshop skills so I gave them a photograph with 4 main faults and asked them to correct it. It was great, the activity was received very well by the students. When they couldn't figure out how to do something, this made them ask the questions I wanted them to ask, so I could show them how to do it. The students said that I had trusted them and gave them independence, so they could really see what they knew and what they wanted to know.
I was definitely inspired by this video!
Excellent! a much more learner centred method of teaching.
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