TACTivities: A Way to Promote Hands-On, Minds-On Learning in a Virtual Learning Environment

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Author(s): Angie Hodge-Zickerman (Northern Arizona University, USA), Eric Stade (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)and Cindy S. York (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 19
Source title: Handbook of Research on Transforming Teachers’ Online Pedagogical Reasoning for Engaging K-12 Students in Virtual Learning
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Margaret L. Niess (Oregon State University, USA)and Henry Gillow-Wiles (Oregon State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7222-1.ch014

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education / Virtual Learning Environments

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The need to keep students engaged is particularly acute in virtual environments. In this chapter, the authors describe TACTivities (learning activities with tactile components), designed to help encourage student participation, collaboration, and communication. Originally developed for in-person instruction, TACTivities are readily adaptable to online learning environments. TACTivities are intended to foster a sense of play, creative problem-solving, and exploration among the students who undertake to complete these tasks, and also among the teachers who design them. Unlike other tactile learning ventures, which may involve various kinds of physical props, TACTivities entail only moveable pieces of paper, or electronic equivalents. This feature means that TACTivities are quite portable, and they are easily implemented, shared, and modified (particularly in remote settings). Further, TACTivities allow for inclusion of discipline-specific content, language, and formalism, while still cultivating physical engagement in problem-solving and critical thinking in any subject area.

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