Bonny: It can't just seem like ame for a game's sake, like it actually has has to be meaningful. Bonny: In your case, what a great example of door tying these things together be and beginning to help me think like a historian and ask questions and see some of the mystery that's in it. That's right, bonny. I think we can. We can have a sort of broad sense of what meaningful is too. So in some cases you could say this this meaningful practice because this kind of question can be on the examand that's meaningful to students.
Peter Felten discusses the research on engaging learners on episode 216 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Notes from the episode
Shape what our students do and what they think in the most efficient ways possible.
—Peter Felten
Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn. (from How Learning Works by Ambrose et al., 2010, p. 1)
Five Things Students Need to Do:
- Time
- Effort
- Feedback
- Practice
- Reflect
Three Things Students Need to Think/Feel:
- “I belong here.”
- “I can learn this.”
- “I find this meaningful.”