Using Broadcast Media in Teaching: An example from the biosciences
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The document discusses the integration of multimedia and broadcast media in bioscience education, highlighting examples of using TV clips for teaching. It outlines various teaching strategies, such as using documentaries and video analysis for discussions on scientific and ethical issues in subjects like gene therapy and experimental design. Additionally, it emphasizes collaborative projects and resources like 'Biology on the Box' for enriching teaching practices.
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• Other subject areas starting to develop similar sites
• e.g. Englishonthebox.wordpress.com
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Using Broadcast Media in Teaching: An example from the biosciences
- 1. Using Broadcast Media inTeaching: An example from the biosciences AV in Education: What’s Possible & What’s Legal? Dr Chris Willmott Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology University of Leicester cjrw2@le.ac.uk
- 2. Outline of session • Examples uses of TV in teaching • Finding and sharing materials - Biology on the Box
- 3. Using TV for University Teaching Harry and Paul’s Story of the Twos https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/11335
- 4. Overview • Multimedia (esp visual media) can be integrated into teaching in variety of ways Use of broadcast clips Video production News analysis
- 5. Overview • Multimedia (esp visual media) can be integrated into teaching in variety of ways Use of broadcast clips
- 6. A Child Against All Odds https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/11337 Example uses: (1) Documentary
- 7. Die Another Day https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/11336 https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/11161 Example uses: (2) Scene-setter
- 8. Example (2): Context and use • Introduction to Year 2 lecture on Gene Therapy • Used precisely because it is so wrong • Set scene for more accurate discussion on the approach (including another clip, from Horizon)
- 9. Holby City: “Better The Devil You Know” https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/12052 Example uses: (3a) Discussion
- 10. • Pete has kidney failure and is being offered the last opportunity of a transplant, using a kidney from a pig • What ethical arguments might there be for/against this operation? • What scientific concerns might there be about an operation of this sort? • If you were Pete’s friend would you suggest that he accepts the doctor’s offer? Why/why not? Example uses: (3a) Discussion
- 11. Example (3b): Context and use • Video from Brainiac: Science abuse • Used in a Year 1 tutorial on Experimental Design
- 12. • Students watch short clip describing an experiment to investigate whether you can smell if someone is afraid • Having watched the clip, they discuss: - what was good about the design of the expt? - what was wrong with the experiment? http://tinyurl.com/terrorface1 Example (3b): Discussion
- 13. Brainiac Science Abuse: The Smell of Fear https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/11297 https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/11298 Example (3b): Discussion
- 14. Good aspects of Brainiac expt? • included a negative control (no fear, no sport) • all subjects carried out their activity for same time • all subjects were “sniffed” by same person • all subjects were same gender • …but little else is good
- 15. What was wrong with this expt? • only one “sniff-er” • only three “sweat-ers” • was not the same person on crane/running/relaxing • distance nose-to-armpit not same in all cases • may have been other explanations for the observed differences, e.g. • natural body odour differences between the three • use of deodorant • eating of smelly foods • olfactory fatigue/adaptation may have occurred
- 16. Design a better version • work with those sitting near you to design a better experiment looking into whether it is possible to smell fear http://tinyurl.com/armpitsniffing1
- 17. A more scientific approach Prehn-Kristensen et al (2009), PLoS ONE 4(6): e5987 http://tinyurl.com/anxietypaper
- 18. The Cell (2): The Chemistry of Life https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/11246 Example uses: (4) Full programme
- 19. Example (4): Context and use • Year 1 double lecture session (video lasts 60 mins) • A beautiful walk through the history of expts that identified DNA as the molecule of inheritance • Students provided with a structured worksheet to aid note-taking during episode
- 20. Example (4): Full programme • Difficult to fit full episode into lecture slot? • Not best use of F2F time? • BoB raises potential for requiring students to watch programme before lecture or tutorial • Flipped classroom • “Viewing lists” as well as “reading lists” for module
- 21. Biology on the Box • Recommendations for TV (and radio) footage that can used for enriching bioscience teaching • Primarily designed for use in conjunction with Box of Broadcasts • Programme tips equally valid without BoB, just harder to get hold of • Sharing best practice - metadata & keywords - describe usage • A collaborative project - students as producers - different institutions
- 22. Biology on the Box • Biologyonthebox.wordpress.com • Started September 2014 • Post of various styles
- 23. Various styles Awareness of digital availability… … plus notes
- 24. Various styles Clip within programme… … plus structured activities
- 25. Various styles News story News overview
- 27. Posts by Students AudioVisuals In the Disciplines (AVID)
- 28. Posts by Interns
- 30. [Other discipline] on the Box • Other subject areas starting to develop similar sites • e.g. Englishonthebox.wordpress.com Historyonthebox.wordpress.com
- 32. Acknowledgements • University of Leicester Teaching Enhancement Fund • University of Leicester Graduate Gateway Fund • Thanks to authors
- 33. Any Questions? E-mail: cjrw2@le.ac.uk Twitter: cjrw Slideshare: cjrw2 Delicious: chriswillmott Blogs: www.bioethicsbytes.wordpress.com www.biologyonthebox.wordpress.com www.biosciencecareers.wordpress.com www.lefthandedbiochemist.wordpress.com