My Etec 565a Portfolio

I can sympathize with Boris’ students. I have a very good lateral and relational understanding of information and can grasp the underlying meaning. I have little to no ability to memorize any text, whether it is a script, poetry, provinces, capitals or the periodic table.

It would have been nice to have more rigorous assessment when I was in high school so that I wasn’t so crippled by my inability to memorize effectively.

With that said, I think Boris should (with the help of other faculty) create a jeopardy style flash game. The questions could be asked in categories of:

H Gas
Li Solid
Br Liquid
Tc Synthetic

They would range in levels of difficulty such as “…is the gas that we breath”
The student would then type in the answer “what is oxygen?”. If the answer is wrong the student could then be supplied with a random hint. Once they get to the correct answer, the student would attempt to place it in the correct spot on the table. If he guesses wrong, all of the gas slots could be exposed. With each subsequent wrong guess less options would be available, narrowing the choices.

This type of activity would help in multiple ways. According to Gibbs and Simpson (2004-05) found that not only did you have to put in a lot of time allocated to studying a topic buy you have to be motivated. Taking a game-like approach to teaching the periodic table would help motivate students.