{"id":10136,"date":"2012-09-24T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T00:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=10136"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T23:17:40","slug":"new-classroom-and-teaching-technique-tested-at-uh-manoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/09\/24\/new-classroom-and-teaching-technique-tested-at-uh-manoa\/","title":{"rendered":"New classroom and teaching technique tested at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9VjOO6DRq_s?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>College classrooms at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> may soon have a whole new look and feel. Instead of a large group lecture, students will be separated into smaller groups, seated around tables, working together to learn the material. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you want to improve long-term learning and improve student retention, then don&#8217;t lecture to them,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Biology Interim Chair and Professor <strong>Steven Robinow<\/strong>. &ldquo;Get them involved, get them engaged in the material.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Robinow was first exposed to the concept of a Student Centered Classroom at a science conference on the mainland where he learned that it&#8217;s not just the way the material is taught, but the environment students learn in. M&#257;noa administrators were already looking into new teaching concepts and classroom designs when Robinow approached them. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With Steve&#8217;s vision and passion and support from several vice chancellors, as well as the chancellor, we built this space in less than an academic year which is really quite remarkable,&rdquo; said <strong>Krystyna Aune<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa interim associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. <\/p>\n<p>That space is room 101 in Webster Hall. It fits 64 students with eight large tables that seat up to eight students each. There&#8217;s a large monitor at each table where the professor displays his content and students can also use the monitors to display their work using their computers, iPads or smart phones. <\/p>\n<p>There are also white boards on just about every wall, another way to get the students involved and talking about the material. In Robinow&#8217;s biology 275 class the students are working together using colored yarn and post it notes to figure out how DNA replicates. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is really new but it&#8217;s also really fun and exciting,&rdquo; said student <strong>Sarah Pietruszk<\/strong>. &ldquo;And what we do in class, you&#8217;re basically able to learn it a lot better than just having someone spout out facts at you.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&#8217;s a lot more collaboration amongst students,&rdquo; agreed fellow student <strong>Warren Stopak<\/strong>. &ldquo;And it&#8217;s not so much just listening, it&#8217;s more like actually participating.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Student <strong>Trislyn Tadaki<\/strong> says she is more a hands-on type of person. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So when we do the activities like moving proteins around and stuff it helps a lot because you see it mentally,&rdquo; said Tadaki.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Usually I&#8217;ll just study by myself and read the book and read the PowerPoints but not really understand the whole concept, like the whole idea,&rdquo; said student <strong>Herman Valdez<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So instead of memorizing everything, which is I have gotten really good at doing that, we&#8217;re actually having to apply it a little bit,&rdquo; said Pietruszk. &ldquo;I think that is really healthy so we understand what&#8217;s going on instead of being able to just parrot it back.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> administrators say Webster Hall&#8217;s Student Centered Classroom may be the first of many on campus and could be used for a class of perhaps as many as 150 students. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We really get to get up close and personal with the kids, which is the fun part of the job,&rdquo; said Robinow. &ldquo;I know this stuff so lecturing about it is not the interesting part. The interesting part is how to get someone else excited about it.&rdquo; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa&#8217;s Professor Steven Robinow introduces a Student Centered Classroom at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[21,9,56],"class_list":["post-10136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-21st-century-facilities","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10136"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136033,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions\/136033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}