Student Engagement

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Student Engagement
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Today

• Motivation
• Concept maps

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Motivation

• Willingness to apply effort to a task
• Willingness to persist

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ARCS Model

• Attention
• Relevance
• Confidence
• Satisfaction

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Attention

• Use novelty to gain interest
• Arouse student curiosity
• Incorporate varied activities

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Relevance

• Present goals
• Allow student choice in specific topic or
  activity
• Relate content to familiar experiences or prior
  learning

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Confidence

• Inform students of criteria and provide models
  of exemplary work
• Provide multiple opportunities for success
• Attribute success to internal factors (hard
  work, for example)

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Satisfaction

• Encourage intrinsic reinforcement
• Provide extrinsic rewards
• Offer feedback based on criteria

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Concept Maps

• Graphical representations of schema structures
• Concepts (nodes) linked with Relationships
• Examples
• http//schools.portnet.k12.ny.us/kids/teachers/In
  spiration/examples.htm
• http//telstar.ote.cmu.edu/environ/m2/s5/index.sht
  ml
• http//lasi.lynchburg.edu/McKenzie_w/public/Exampl
  es.htm

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Making a Concept Map

• Identify main topic
• Generate key concepts
• Organize concepts
• Determine relationships among concepts

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Remember

• Start small and provide a template for students,
  at first
• There are many right answers (good maps), but
  there are also wrong ones!
• The links are as important as (or more important
  than) the nodes