Learning Doesn’t Need to be BORING!

I absolutely loved the group presentations and activities we’ve been experiencing in class! I found so much of what the groups taught through both their presentations and the activities they facilitated to be useful and educational.  As someone who wants to eventually teach at the college-level, I found it especially important how much fun we (as adults) had playing while also learning a lot at the same time.

The fairy tale group’s activity was really fun and turned out to be hilarious because many of the “new” stories we made were quite adult-themed.  I really liked that they read the less well known version of The Three Little Pigs that really demonstrated what they were talking about concerning updated fairy tales.  I was also really interested in the book Cinderella Ate My Daughter that they were talking about and put it on my list of books to read when I have the time.

Both of the adolescent and literacy groups also did a great job.  Making a Pinterest was a really unique idea and definitely a new and fun experience for me.  It was also interesting how it connected to the group’s point about how people represent themselves online.  The other adolescent group that had us take a survey also had a unique idea for an activity concerning representation on the internet; I really liked that we were able to look at the statistics about the surveys we just took right away and it added a new component to when we debriefed as a class.

I found the gaming group to have the most entertaining activity.  I chose to join a group that had to play a game I had never even heard of and turned out to be a whole lot of fun.  They were really able to demonstrate the principles of their articles by having us play these games and it showed when we talked as a class after playing the games and the facilitating members actually asked us specific questions about literacy and what we had learned in our games.

The activity that the make/hack/play group had us participate in was also a lot of fun (although our activity was also pretty frustrating at times as well).  I liked that each table had a member of the group to help facilitate the activity and help us when we needed it.