9 Interactive Learning Strategies

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In order to know what is interactive learning you
will have to go through the definition
of interactive learning. Interactive learning can
be defined as a practical approach to help
students to be more involved in retaining more
material to improve their skills, with or without
using a form of technology such as video
conferencing software like ezTalks Cloud Meeting
etc. Interactive learning helps is strengthening
the critical thinking and problem solving skills
of the students.
9 Interactive Learning Strategies

• There are many strategies to make interactive
  learning, or collaborative learning, easier
• and effective. Some of them use a technology
  whereas some do not. Some of the commonly used
  interactive learning strategies are briefly
  discussed here under for your guidance.
• Total Physical Response or TPR
• It has been proved through various researches
  that students retain more information when
  physical activities are included in classrooms.
  For instance, to indicate their opinion based
  responses to a question the students should stand
  up and move to one side of the room. But it
  should not be used for right or wrong answers.
  Such activities can lead to discussions and
  debates with the classmates.
• Follow the Leader

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• The students can use social media network and
  appoint one of them as chairperson on
• Twitter and make him responsible to post the most
  important topics discussed in the class on that
  day on Twitter. The other students should follow
  the feed on Twitter feed so
• that they can re-tweet their disagreements or
  discussions. The leader on Twitter can be
  changed every day or week by the teacher as per
  the strength of the class.
• opposite argument
• The students who disagree with the answer of an
  opinion question can be paired to represent
  their side in a debate to prove the opposition
  wrong. It will compel them to think on their
  opinion critically if they are unable to prove
  other wrong. It will help in broadening their
  capacity to understand the topic under
  consideration.
• One word
• If lecture is the only way to discuss any topic
  then at the end of the lesson the students
  should be told to summarize the whole lesson in
  one word only. Then they should be asked to give
  explanation of choosing that word in a Para. This
  will compel the students to listen to the lesson
  actively so that they can summarize the essence
  of the lesson in one word. The teacher can also
  ask the students to write a sentence or a slogan
  about the main idea of the lesson.
• Historically correct
• The students can be asked what was shown
  historically correct and what has been glossed
  over or dramatized after watching a film based on
  the topic discussed in the class. This technique
  can more appropriately be applied for examining
  fairness of historical movies and other similar
  films like dramatized documentaries.
• In this interactive learning strategy students
  can also be divided into groups to give examples
  of the movies that covered the idea or topic
  discussed in the class. It will compel them to
  find at least one idea that was shown right in
  the film and one that was wrongly picturised.
• Quizzes on YouTube Videos

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• Multiple choice quizzes can be created by using
  the comments on the featured videos on
• YouTube to know how the students respond on
  different videos. Students should be allowed to
  post their responses just by clicking on the
  hyperlink option in the comment
• box which will take them to a response on the
  video so that they can compare, whether their
  response was right or wrong. The teachers can use
  this strategy as the exercise of the day or in
  the test format by collecting some similar
  quizzes together.
• Test Tournament
• A competition between the two groups of a class
  can be organized as a practice test on most of
  the points discussed in the class. The students
  should be allowed to study the topic together
  and give the answer to earn points which should
  be carried over to next round. This urge to beat
  the rival group in competition will increase
  their engagement in their study materials.
• Pop Culture Statistics
• The teacher can connect the problems with online
  learning tools instead of using only abstract
  numbers to make the students interested in the
  lectures. The students will be more excited to
  answer the problem when they could link them with
  something they know about instead of a general
  idea.
• Puzzle Pieces
• During the period the class can be divided into
  different sections to complete different goals.
  At the end of the period, they should be allowed
  to teach the students of other teams about the
  topic of their research and their findings in
  this regard. This arrangement can be done in a
  bit different way by remixing the teams with an
  expert on different topics in each team. The
  students will focus on their topic more deeply
  when they know they have to teach their friends
  about it.
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