- Title
- Building students' communication skills and understanding of environmental and sustainability issues interactively and cumulatively with Pecha Kucha presentations
- Creator
- McBain, Bonnie; Phelan, Liam
- Relation
- Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies p. 279-284
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28543-6_38
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Communicating complex environmental challenges to diverse audiences is a key skill required of graduates from higher education in the field of sustainability. This chapter describes the use of Pecha Kucha (a highly constrained presentation format requiring exactly 20 simple, image-based slides each presented for 20 s) as a way to facilitate class discussions. Pecha Kucha presentations by all students in the class can be combined strategically to cover different aspects of an entire course to support students' cumulative, holistic learning, in a manner similar to jigsaw and other cooperative learning strategies. Presenter-generated questions serve as prompts for subsequent discussions to encourage critical thinking and collaborative learning by both the student facilitator and her peers. The learning activity builds students' (i) understanding of, and (ii) communication skills about, environmental and sustainability issues. After presenting and engaging in peer-to-peer discussions, students should be able to (1) research an environmental issue and use critical thinking to distil its salient, core elements and (2) communicate effectively about environmental issues through Pecha Kucha presentations and asking related open-ended questions and (3) develop a broader understanding of environmental issues through watching and discussing peers' presentations.
- Subject
- Pecha Kucha; environmental communication; complexity; discussion; learner-centered teaching
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1348625
- Identifier
- uon:30238
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783319285436
- Language
- eng
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