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Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Title of the presentation:
How to teach interactively in large classrooms
Short abstract of the presentation:
In most of the times, when faced with large class-room teaching situations, lecture seems to be the only comfortable option. At the same time, research shows, that this is also the most useless method of teaching, getting the class to remember only about 5% of what has been taught. Having seminar with 50, 70, 100 or more students seems to be a mission impossible. This workshop will look into ways how large classrooms can be engaged in interactive teaching. Students will have options of contributing and discussing few classroom activities proposed by the lecturer, but also they will be give opportunities to share their own experience as both teacher and learner.
Short biography:
Areas of expertise: Internet users, information society, IT policy, cultural participation, interview and survey methods. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt is an associate professor and head of the institute in the University of Tartu, Institute of Journalism and Communication. She also works as a part-time researcher in Estonian National Museum. Her research interests are focused on internet user typologies, user-friendly online spaces as possible venues for participation in political and cultural life. She has also analyzed new reception in online communities and internet spaces. She completed her PhD in 2006 on the topic of information environments as contexts for internet adoption. She is leader of research projects: ‘Developing museum communication in the 21st century information environment’ and leading Estonian partner for e-Participation project ‘HUB websites for Youth participation’. She is also participates in projects: EuKidsOnline, ‘The Problems of Transformation and Reception of Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age’ and ‘Estonia as an Emerging Information and Consumer Society: Social Sustainability and Quality of Life’. She has recently published in Journal of Baltic Studies, Journal of computer Mediated Communication and Journal of Children and Media.
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