Research on Engaging Learners
Teaching in Higher Ed
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How to Give Students Practice Opportunities
Students are asked to take their knowledge out of the class room and creatively apply it, and then bring it back in. So instead of having students write just te standard five para essay, have them writ in editorial for a newspaper or a letter to a representative. And what they're doing in those cases is having to shape their knowledge in different ways for different audiences. It's giving them practice thinking about what matters and what doesn't matter in those audiences.
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