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Sull, Errol Craig; Clements, Kurtis – Distance Learning, 2023
The blog and distance learning: the former can enhance, enlighten, and elevate the educational experience for the student and the teaching experience for the instructor. And blogs are especially suited for the asynchronous environment where nearly everything is written and remains throughout the course, so students can continually refer to the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Electronic Journals, Student Journals, Distance Education
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Frana, Philip L. – Honors in Practice, 2022
An interdisciplinary honors course titled "Minds, Machines, and Meaning" incorporates the notion of the algorithmic imaginary, which explains how people make use of algorithms to create new information infrastructures and communities and how these algorithms shape us in turn. Describing a culminating writing assignment in speculative…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics, Writing Assignments
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Jinxin Guo – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
Our organic chemistry course enrolls students from the medicine major. As future healthcare professionals, medical students should also take on the responsibility of publicizing scientific knowledge related to human health. Therefore, starting from 2020, we have designed an assignment that tasked students with writing a popular science essay for…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Writing Assignments, Medical Education, Medical Students
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Alghamdi, Amani Khalaf H.; Alotaibi, Wadha Habbab – Science & Education, 2022
This exploratory case study affirmed the merit of using science fiction-inspired story writing to help Saudi Arabian Grade 10 female students learn science. Recognizing that teacher-centered rote learning was not reaching her rural students in the western part of Riyadh Province, the female teacher in this case switched to the constructivist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Fiction, Grade 10, Females
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Ramel, Frédéric; Vergonjeanne, Anaëlle – Journal of Political Science Education, 2023
Although the esthetic turn in International Relations (IR) has recently expanded to teaching, with professors promoting the mobilization of artistic material in the classroom, its use in students' productions and examinations has received scarce attention. Drawing on a course at Sciences Po Paris dedicated to IR normative theory and given for five…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, International Relations, Fiction, Learning Processes
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Seevak, Marina – Childhood Education, 2020
Young children suffer when schools make inappropriate academic demands, which create anxious and demoralized young learners who feel disinvested in the learning process. Students' mental and physical health suffer from the stress of academically driven environments, and they lose the opportunity to gain the skills that creative play generates.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
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James R. Gilligan – English Journal, 2019
To combat the inevitable intellectual fatigue that autobiographical essay assignments often engender and, more importantly, to provide students with an authentic audience and purpose for their writing, the author designed an autobiographical assignment that liberates students from the traditional essay format while empowering them to envision…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Adolescent Literature, Autobiographies, Teaching Methods
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Boubekeur, Sihem – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The Reader-Response Theory considers the learner as an active participant in extracting meaning from a literary work depending on his/her prior experience. Teaching literature critically allows the reader to create a sense, and compare the previous experience with the written text. Second-year students cannot decode and scrutinize a short academic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reader Response, Literary Genres, Second Language Learning
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Lozano, Ricardo; Antrim, Joanne – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
Through this study, students in their corresponding countries were led in identical activities allowing them to express themselves freely. The study observed differences in creativity among diverse students. The findings of this research challenge fundamental assumptions concerning levels of creativity displayed by particular cultures. [For the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Creativity, Preservice Teachers
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Lee, Sangmin-Michelle – ReCALL, 2019
This qualitative study investigates a media transfer project in which a digital game was used to promote student creativity in an English as a foreign language (EFL) class. The paper first addresses the potential of opportunities for stimulating student creativity and motivation. Creativity has been highlighted as a core competency and has…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Creativity
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Perkins, Tanya – Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2019
In the writing classroom, collaborative learning often takes the form of coauthoring, peer workshops, or critique sessions. While these are useful, what other active-learning approaches might be effective, particularly in light of the range of media with which students are increasingly familiar? World building--creation of an…
Descriptors: Creativity, Criticism, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning
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Tsai, Kuan Chen – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The purpose of the present study is to explore to what extent the use of a more structured mode of assessing creative products--specifically, the CPAM--could beneficially influence design students' product creativity and creative processes. For this qualitative inquiry, following our CPAM-based intervention, students wrote reflective papers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Design, Qualitative Research
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Darren Masserman – English Journal, 2015
This article argues that the goal of an educator is to help students realize they can be effective writers by giving them the ability to demonstrate their skills. Scene writing can make writing seem less like a chore and more like an opportunity to express ideas. As students write scenes that include both dialogue and action, they gain a deeper…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Language Arts, Writing (Composition), Dramatics
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Shivers, James; Levenson, Cyra; Tan, Mei – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2017
A vibrant theory of change capable of fueling critical practice may be an indispensable feature of teaching argument in secondary education. According to the PIE model (Perception, Interpretation, Expression), layers of experience build a cognitive scaffold to support the development of critical skills. In addition, incorporating works of art and…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Creativity, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction
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Lee, Bridget Kiger; Enciso, Patricia – Journal of Literacy Research, 2017
Drawing on assets-oriented, sociocultural theories of imagination and learning, the authors argue that the improvisational qualities and expanded resources of dramatic approaches to teaching make a positive difference in the quality of and persistence in students' story writing. The authors describe findings from a controlled quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creativity, Drama, Teaching Methods
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