Speed dating college

Active Learning Strategies

I know this is a rare feat, especially in the secondary setting, but I am not exaggerating. Speed dating is the real deal. It tricks students into learning and will make your teacher heart warm and fuzzy inside. The best part is that this lesson model is so versatile that you can find a creative way to use it for just about anything! I facilitate this lesson to help my students practice their rhetorical skills during our unit on persuasion.

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At the start of a speed dating session, students are given a topic or question to discuss. Each student sits facing another student. Students typically remain in their partner-groups for about minutes before the instructor, who must keep time, notifies them to move on to their next partner. Once students rotate to their new partners, the timer is reset and students again discuss their topic or question, this time with a new discussion partner. The session proceeds in this manner, with each student thus getting the opportunity to interact with multiple other students in a series of brief one-on-one discussions Murphy, Depending on the goals of the session, the instructor may prepare just a few broad questions for students to discuss Murphy, Rather than preparing the answer sheets themselves, instructors can assign their preparation as a homework or in-class activity, as creating the answer sheets serves as another opportunity for students to learn the material Danczak,

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This activity can be used as an anticipatory set, activity in the middle of a session, or reviewing at the end of a class. Students are sharing and questioning other students to increase their understanding of learning outcomes or processes. Supplies: 1. Prompts which could be questions, graphics, short articles, or worksheets. Preparation: Prepare whatever prompts that you want to use.

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Speed Dating with Learning Technologies

Even though the students of the College Experience take their own classes with separate adjunct professors facilitating the curriculum, they are fully immersed in the culture and activities within the College of Saint Rose. We thank the student body, faculty, and leaders for embracing our students along with creating such phenomenal activities to fill their free time with social pursuits. Midnight Eats, which is normally a late-night dining and relaxation area, was turned into Dating Central as plenty of our students chose to participate in Speed Dating. They paid a very small fee to have the chance of meeting other college students beyond those in the program to tell each other about their interests, life backgrounds, and what they are looking for in a romantic relationship. It is a lot to cover in just four minutes before they move on to the next person of interest.

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