Using Broadcast Media in Teaching: An example from the biosciences
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The document discusses the integration of broadcast media into bioscience education, highlighting various examples such as documentaries and news clips that can enhance teaching. It emphasizes multimedia's role in facilitating discussions on scientific and ethical issues through real-world scenarios. Additionally, it introduces the 'Biology on the Box' initiative, which provides resources and recommendations for using television content in academic settings.
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Using Broadcast Media in Teaching: An example from the biosciences
- 1. Using Broadcast Media inTeaching: An example from the biosciences Making the Most ofYour ERA Licence 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 • Biology on the Box • Searching for materials
- 3. Using TV for University Teaching Harry and Paul’s Story of the Twos http://bobnational.net/record/230056
- 4. Overview • Multimedia (esp visual media) can be integrated into teaching in variety of ways Use of broadcast clips Video production News analysis
- 5. A Child Against All Odds http://bobnational.net/record/230327 Example uses: (1) Documentary
- 6. Die Another Day http://bobnational.net/record/230324 http://bobnational.net/record/220597 Example uses: (2) Scene-setter
- 7. 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)
- 8. Holby City: “Better The Devil You Know” http://bobnational.net/record/318451 Example uses: (3a) Discussion
- 9. • 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
- 10. Example (3b): Context and use • Video from Brainiac: Science abuse • Used in a Year 1 tutorial on Experimental Design
- 11. • 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
- 12. Brainiac Science Abuse: The Smell of Fear http://bobnational.net/record/226469 Example uses: (3b) Discussion
- 13. • watch this short clip describing an experiment to investigate whether you can smell if someone is afraid • having watched the clip, consider: - what was good about the design of the expt? - what was wrong with the experiment? http://tinyurl.com/terrorface1 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 “sniffer” 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 http://bobnational.net/record/222440 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 expt 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” – subscription service • Programme tips equally valid without BoB, just harder to get hold of • A collaborative project - students as producers - different institutions
- 22. BoB • Fantastic tool, not perfect • Key weakness = discovery/rediscovery • Additional resource for sharing best practice - more metadata & keywords - scope to describe usage of resource • Hence launched Biology on the Box
- 23. Biology on the Box • Biologyonthebox.wordpress.com • Started September 2014 • Post of various styles
- 24. Various styles Awareness of digital availability… … plus notes
- 25. Various styles Clip within programme… … plus structured activities
- 26. Various styles News story News overview
- 28. Posts by Students AudioVisuals In the Disciplines (AVID)
- 30. Biology on the Box • Biologyonthebox.wordpress.com • Started September 2014 • Post of various styles • Posts by students • Posts from other academics
- 31. [Other discipline] on the Box • Other subject areas starting to develop similar sites • e.g. Englishonthebox.wordpress.com
- 33. Acknowledgements • University of Leicester Teaching Enhancement Fund • Thanks to authors of blog posts
- 34. 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