Reviving face-to-face learning: Using interactive activities to engage students in academic writing

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Te Puna Ako – Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning

Te Puna Aurei LearnFest 22

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Reviving face-to-face

learning: using interactive activities to engage students in academic writing

Cindy Wee

Unitec, a part of Te Pukenga

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Using the best of face-face and online teaching

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Pre-covid teaching face to face -

using a variety of group activities to engage

students

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During Covid – teaching online via Zoom, using

Mentimeter, an interactive teaching tool to engage students

What is a report?

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Bachelor in Computing System Post-Covid class on writing a technical report

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Using PowerPoint slides embedded in Mentimeter

• Students are asked to log in and they could follow the slides on the PowerPoint and input

answers according to the questions I have for them

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Online Interactive activities via

laptops

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Interacting via

mobile phones

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• Opportunity for all students to see

everybody’s ideas and yet it’s anonymous

• Encourage participation especially the quieter ones

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Example of the input of students’ ideas through Mentimeter as shown on screen

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• Everyone was engaged in these activities

created a rich pool of ideas from everyone

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Students can have

hands-on experience on using online tools, e.g Grammarly

premium, Academic

Phrasebank or Writing Doctor (PreTurn-it-in) to check for plagiarism

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Face to face activities for students to engage

collaboratively in class

• Participation by all

• Sharing perspectives

• Group decision making

• Thinking skills to give rationale of their idea

• Encouraging inclusiveness

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• Presenting the group’s answer

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Comparing ideas from the other group – they have to justify why

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Students asked to work on a print-out activity sheet individually and then compare answers by pair work

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Activity to get each group to sum up

what an A+ report looks like

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Class lecturer to give

feedback of her expectation on group’s view on an A + report

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Summing the session with a game

• Student who

failed to catch the ball will need to answer a

statement with true or false.

• Statements are all based on the

writing a technical report.

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Students say:

42% 42%

16%

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Covid has revived the future of teaching and learning for better student engagement and experience

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Thanks for listening!

Cindy Wee

[email protected]