{"id":31472,"date":"2019-05-15t10:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-15t15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=31472"},"modified":"2019-05-15t10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15t15:06:20","slug":"whos-doing-all-the-work-whos-having-all-the-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2019\/05\/whos-doing-all-the-work-whos-having-all-the-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"who’s doing all the work? who’s having all the fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"

part 1: five steps to incorporating productive failure into your course<\/strong><\/p>\n

by cynthia j. brame, cft associate director<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>several years ago, i had the distinct pleasure of hearing a\u00a0talk<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0barb stengel<\/a>, professor of the practice in vanderbilt\u2019s teaching and learning department.\u00a0 she had a mantra that she repeated throughout the talk to frame her comments: \u201cwho\u2019s doing all the work? who\u2019s having all the fun?\u201d<\/p>\n

those two sentences have stuck with me. they made me think about how much i love to struggle with puzzles and problems, and how much joy i get from creating order from chaos when i\u2019m learning a new subject. barb\u2019s point was that we all feel like that: that the work of learning is what brings the joy of learning. and she wanted us to see that this applies to our students too.<\/p>\n

these sentences have resonated with me for six (!) years, and every faculty member i\u2019ve shared them with has had a visible reaction: a pause, a nod, a smile. so i think it\u2019s worth exploring different ways to bring the joy of intellectual work to our undergraduate classes, starting with this post about productive failure.<\/p>\n

productive failure is a teaching approach that deliberately asks students to solve problems that they are not yet prepared to solve\u2014leading to \u201cfailure\u201d in the short term\u2014as preparation for direct instruction. during direct instruction, students\u2019 imperfect solutions are used as tools … [more<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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part 1: five steps to incorporating productive failure into your course by cynthia j. brame, cft associate director several years ago, i had the distinct pleasure of hearing a\u00a0talk\u00a0by\u00a0barb stengel, professor of the practice in vanderbilt\u2019s teaching and learning department.\u00a0 she had a mantra that she repeated throughout the talk to frame her comments: \u201cwho\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":456,"featured_media":31477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[375,376,377,378],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2019\/05\/13101746\/clay-150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31472"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31486,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31472\/revisions\/31486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}