Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Embodied learning

I think bodily experiences might be helpful in learning aspects of chemistry because students can do experiments to learn and understand more about the concepts or theories of chemistry. Many experiments involve color or temperature changes (exothermic and endothermic reactions) that students can see or feel respectively. These sensory experiences can impress students, making them remember the chemical ideas related to the experiments. Also, this sensory information can act as a "flag" to remind students's prior knowledge. All these sensory experiences can be easily provided in laboratories.
In addition, bodily experiences can be applied in learning mathematics.  Based on the TED talk given by Erik Stern and Karl Schaefer, dancing related to mathematics can happen in the classroom. They taught students to use dance to count combinations by shaking hands. This activity was interactive and fun for students to learn. Therefore, it is possible to use sensory experiences and movement as resources in the classes.

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