This semester, I'm going to try a new approach to the information available on the handouts. Instead of relying on the students to read the handouts, I'll prepare Google Presentations (ppts) with the critical information I expect them to know along with a variety of YouTube tutorials explaining the concepts: serious to comic.
More and more I see students engaged with videos. The learning videos on Khan Academy and Alex seem to engage the students for longer periods of time. Is it the chance to repeatedly see the information? Or, being able to stop and start the video as needed? I am curious to see if by using videos to teach a concept (Active Voice, for example), the lesson is applied quicker.
Last semester the students figured out how to split the screens on their Chromebooks to have the handouts side-by-side with the quizzes. They 'learned' the lessons according to the grades, but applying the lessons were a daily reminder and when the end-of-semester review quiz came along, few knew enough to pass it as a rate comparable to the previous semester (73% vs. 86% from the previous semester).
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