Any teaching methods for a paperless, penless environment?

Question

I am a trainer for a large company who, for security purposes, has disallowed the use of paper and pens in the classroom, and my trainees are unable to take any notes for study purposes. I am looking for ideas to be more effective in this environment, as it is a very intensive 6 week training program for new hires in the company, and retention can be difficult.

Answer 1

I agree that having PowerPoint slides for the students afterwards is a good idea. But, my first thought was to get the new hires involved in the training. Somehow make it an active learning environment. There are many ways to do this.

One thing to do is a "think, pair, share." Pose a question to the students, ask them to think about it for a minute, then to pair up with someone to discuss their two ideas. After a couple of minutes, ask the new hires to then share with the class. This does a few things: gets the students to think for themselves and talk about it in a safe environment (with their partner), both of which will give them more confidence to share with the group. On occasion, some of my students have said "well my partner said..." and offer a terrific answer that someone who might be too shy to talk. This active learning technique is very effective in many situations.

Another technique is called the "jigsaw." Have a short reading or a collection of short readings, say A, B, C, and D. Have a group of 5 people in each of the groups read their reading and talk about it as a group. After they have had time to do this, "jigsaw" the groups together. Once person from each of the A, B, C, and D groups should be in a newly constructed group. Each person in the new group then explains to their new group members what their reading was about, asking for questions as they go through. In the end, you have people discussing, teaching, and learning from each other. Again, active learning will help the retention.

Answer 2

How interesting! It looks like you're going to have to find some ways to appeal to different learning modalities. There are four basic paths to learning: auditory (listening), visual (seeing), kinesthetic (movement), and tactual (feeling/intuiting/moving things around). Many people have a marked preference for one modality or the other.
So, if students can't take notes, you'll have to encode the learning in a different way. Research shows that the more paths you create, the more durable the learning is. So if you present information in a visual way (like Powerpoint), an auditory way (through a repeated phrase or music) and a kinesthetic way (associate a certain piece of information or a process with a motion or gesture), your learners will probably remember it better. Of course, getting kids to do hand movements for learning is easier than with adults. :) Colored bingo tokens could relate to main ideas. Students could manipulate the bingo tokens as you give details related to each main idea.

There are brain-based strategies for helping people to remember information. The way you structure your lessons has a huge impact on what people will remember. For instance, people learn most effectively in 20-minute learning sessions, and remember best what happens first and what happens last. If you're lecturing, pausing every 15 minutes to give learners a chance to paraphrase what they have learned (put it in their own words) has been associated with strong retention.
As someone else suggested, the jigsaw method can be useful. Students will remember best what they are learning to explain to someone else.

Check out "How the Brain Learns" by David Sousa for more information about best teaching techniques.

Answer 3

Let's see... 1. Fire all women teachers considering the Bible says that women shall not teach over a man. 2. Make the Bible the ONLY textbook allowed. 3. Stone sinners. This means anyone who lies, steals, commits adultery(which, biblically speaking, means so much as being with the opposite sex unchaperoned), worships graven images(this means no more drooling over sexy Hollywood stars and the like), covets(so if you want something someone else has, you're done), etc. 4. Tear down our schools and replace them with churches so instead of going to school everyday to learn, you go to church.(Eh, I suppose this sort of goes with #3) 5. Serving biblically approved lunches(no more pork chops and ham sandwiches as pork is forbidden in the Bible) 6. Post the 10 Commandments in the hallways(although I've heard some schools actually try to get away with this) 7. Where there were once pictures of US Presidents, put only a picture of Christ. 8. During Lent, make fasting a requirement so goodbye snacktime(for younger kids) and lunches. 9. Instead of school counselors, make the kids go to confession. 10. For celebrating holidays, make them ONLY celebrate religious ones and ONLY the religious aspects. Halloween? Buh-bye. Thanksgiving? A day of prayer. Christmas? Sayonara Santa and presents. Have a Nativity pageant. Easter? No more eggs and bunnies, you get a recreation of the Passion. 11. Require daily prayers or recitation of things such as the Lord's Prayer. 12. Instead of teachers, give them priests/ministers/etc. 13. Field trips are to monasteries, places of religious significance, instead of to someplace fun. 14. Separate boys and girls classes, make the girls wear long hair and wear dresses or "modest" clothing. No makeup, no jewelry...unless it's a crucifix or something religious, of course. 15. Homework involves essays as to why other religions are going to hell and the only things worse than another faith is no faith at all, or on how a person can end up in hell or how they can avoid it, etc. 16. Before meals, everyone must say grace/table prayers, and those who don't pray, don't eat. Honestly, I could probably keep going all day if I tried...

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Games are a great way. They take awhile to make, but you will find that your students will know and understand more if it's presented in this format. It also gives you a chance to see how they interact. You might be able to pick out the "great" communicators from the others....good luck!

Answer 6

Power Point & make copies for the students. Role plays & brainstorming

Answer 7

give notes out to the student in pointed froms.
include some game playing and at the end of the lesson take 15minutes to revise the whole lesson..

Answer 8

you are working with digital natives!

technology is key in working with them. try using things such as iMovie, comic life, pages, Powerpoint, Excel, and get a SMART BOARD!

Answer 9

Try simulation or role playing. They will role play the principles, i,e, respect , they act it ut. or simulate it. etc.