A teacher starts a class by eating a lit candle, capturing the students' attention and fostering curiosity. This strategy, known as 'a time for telling', primes students for learning by sparking their curiosity and sustaining their attention. It is important to incorporate engaging and novel content in the learning management system to enhance learning.
Bonni Stachowiak discusses unlocking our imagination inside and outside the LMS on episode 476 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When it comes to getting people to be curious, we don’t want them to be confused. High structure is really important, and then within the structure we want to be able to have elements of surprise and delight.
-Bonni Stachowiak
You’re almost always going to be better off linking versus uploading. A similar idea would be thinking about embedding.
-Bonni Stachowiak