Analogies and Other Teaching Strategies

Learning Goals: 

1. Analogies work best when we make sure we include that “__ is like ___ except ___” and the “except” part might be the most important part! 
2. We do not need to match our teaching practices to students’ learning styles, but we should try to use two styles of explanation to help improve students’ learning (e.g. visual, auditory, active).
3. We don’t want students to think we know everything. 
4. Advice to "Go review the material" probably isn't helpful because...
   1. the student might not have understood it in the first place.
   2. you might instead be able to help them figure out what part was confusing and reteach that part.

There are three videos to watch this week. 

You can watch them on this mediaspace playlist (if you login): 
https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/playlist/dedicated/1_tsekj3pr/

OR you can watch them on the web
(1) http://www.cs.virginia.edu/luther/2910/S2021/player.html#14-Analogy.webm 
(2) http://www.cs.virginia.edu/luther/2910/S2021/player.html#13-Modality.webm 
(3) http://www.cs.virginia.edu/luther/2910/S2021/player.html#43-Misc.webm