Learning in and through drama block IV reflections

 An insightful Tuesday it was!!! From the creative and intersting podcasts that sounded like professional thouroughly researched information, to the posters that look like they were made by analysts and professional artists that are trained to grab your attention. It was all amazing! We had to give feedback and interact with the creators of the presentations we were mostly attracted to. This was a fun activity because we got the chance to experience information that came from someone else's box of creativity. The way that I had translated the posters and podcasts was enhanced the moment I started to speak to its creator. The message was visibly clear though, I could pick up the content without engaging with the artist. It is amazing how someone can include all that they learnt and the research in one presentation. The information on the presentations all had information on how drama helps us in our classrooms. People discussed the way that drama makes the lesson more interesting, h...

I thought the warm-up we did last week was extreme? Ask me again this week.  Here we were full on exercising. We ran a couple of times, did some extreme real workout activities, and danced to music. What today's workout taught me is that we can manipulate our learners into doing something. This is something we learned about in educational studies. It is formally known as reinforcement. Rewarding good behaviour to manipulate the doer to continue doing it. In this case, Kabelo used music as a reinforcement. I noticed that most of my classmates did not want to partake in the activity, but as soon as Kabelo put on some music, most of them started putting in the work. To show further evidence that this method was functional, Kabelo turned off the music when people were not doing the right thing; he then put it on again every time they started doing the correct actions. He took it a step further by rewarding them with music they liked most whenever they would do even better. This is a hi...